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the Loch in any quantities : they lay them on 

 their lands, but do not find that they laft fo 

 long as lime. Farms rife to 40 acres; rents 

 15s. to 21s. Cunningham-meafure. Wheat 

 yields to 30 bufhels ; oats to 40. 



As I advanced, making farther enquiries, 

 ftill I was told that the weaving, at prefent, 

 was not near fo good as feven years ago. Flax, 

 in fome parifhes, pays no tythe; in others, it 

 is taken in kind. < Two bufhels of potatoes, 

 on a ridge feven yards long and two wide, is a 

 very s;ood crop. Rents from 10s. to 21s. A 

 common courfe. 



1. Oats on lay. 2. Wheat. 3. Oats. 4. 

 Barley. 5. Oats. 6. Barley. 7. Oats. 8. 

 Left for lay, a few fow clover or rye-grafs for 

 two years. 



Pafs Newtown Stewart, a row of neat ftonc 

 and flite cabbins, in the neighbourhood of 

 fome new plantations which furround an im- 

 proved lawn, where Mr. Stewart intends build- 

 ing. The foil is in general light, dry, fandy 

 or gravelly. Sea-wrack is collected for burn- 

 ing into kelp all along the coaft of the Loch. 

 There are many lime-kilns all the way to Por- 

 taferry-, I was told 35, and that 15 years ago 

 there was only one, fo much is the improve- 

 ment of land increafing. The ftone is brought 

 by fea from Carlingford, and burnt with coals 

 and turf. The expenfe reckoned is. id. a 

 barrel. It lafts ten years. Shells are fome 



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