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from being a poor wafte trad of little value, 

 was converted to what I had feen, that is, to 

 very fine grafs land. The foil is {tiff cold 

 clay, the fpontaneous growth rufhes, &c. 

 ploughed moft of it firft, and then manured it 

 with either lime or marie: of lime from 100 

 to 120 barrels per acre, at 7d. a barrel on 

 the ground from Hone and turf of his own. 

 Then took a crop of wheat, which proved 

 very fine ; after the wheat, laid it down with 

 oats and hay- feed, the oats very good. Sowed 

 the feeds of a hay-loft with clover: has ufed 

 much compoft made of ditch fcowerings, lime, 

 marie, &c. and fpread it in the fame manner 

 as the lime j fome, after the land was laid to 

 grafs, but did it beft on the fallow. Much 

 of the land fo wet, that hollow drains were 

 necelTary, and made fo as to lay the lands dry, 

 the cuts very numerous, and proved effective. 

 His fences are excellent, 2 rows of quick, and 

 a ditch 6 by 7, a dry hedge at top, and the 

 back dreifed and planted with foreft trees 

 paled in. Mr. Leily has found the bufinefs 

 of improvement profitable, fo that if a tenant 

 had the money necefTary, he would find it to 

 be the beft work he could engage in with a 

 view to profit alone, 



July 25th, returned through Armagh. Paffed 

 Sir Capel Molyneux's domain, which fcems 

 an extenfive and very fine one. Near it .1 

 obferved that the foil was one of the fineft 

 red fandy loams I have any where feen, and 

 feveral pieces of potatoes were planted in drills, 



which 



