Hackling is is. 2d. a ftone, and half the weight 

 is loft ; the produce will be 41b. flax and 4lb. 

 tow, which the Scotch generally buy at 3d. 

 a lb. To a ftone hackled there are 96 hanks ; 

 and to the web of cloth there are 2$ hanks for 

 the weft, and 30 for the warp. A weaver is 

 three weeks doing it, and is paid 17s. From 

 Lifburn to Belfaft, on the river Leggon, there 

 are 12 or 13 bleach greens.- The counties of 

 Down and Antrim are computed fo make to 

 the amount of 8oo,oool. a year, and near one- 

 third of it in this vale. 



Pafled Lord Dungannon's at Bever, whofe 

 plantations are got up to a fine {hade by means 

 of planting very thick; went to Caftle-hill, 

 Mr. Townley Blackwqod's. Rents there are 

 15s. an acre, Cunningham-meafure. Aver- 

 rage of the county of Down 10s. Sowing 

 clover with flax is practiced here, coming in 

 much, and found to be very beneficial. 



In the evening to Belfaft. I had letters to 

 Mr. Portis and Mr. Holmes; but upon calling 

 at their houfes, found the firft in England and 

 the other in the country: fo considerable a 

 place as Belfaft demanded a better account 

 than I could give without auiftance. At din- 

 ner 



