2o6 BELFAST. 



and the inhabitants, amounting to about 

 15,000, make it appear lively and bufy. The 

 public buildings are not numerous or very 

 linking, but over the exchange Lord Don- 

 negal is building an affembly room, 60 feet 

 long, by 30 broad, and 24 high ^ a very ele- 

 gant room. A card room adjoining, 30 by 

 22, and 22 high; and a tea room of the fame 

 lize. His Lordfhip is alfo building a new 

 church, which is one of the lightefl and moft 

 pleafing I have any where feen : it is 74 by 

 54, and 30 high to the cornice ; the ifles fe- 

 parated by a double row of columns -, nothing 

 can be lighter or more pleafing. The town 

 belongs entirely to his Lordfhip. Rent of it 

 2000I. a year. His eftate extends from Drum- 

 bridge, near Lifburn, to Lame, 20 miles in 

 a right line, and is 10 broad. His royalties 

 are great, containing the whole of Loch. 

 Neagh, which is I fuppofe the greateft of any 

 fubject in Europe. His eel fifhery at Tome, 

 and Port-New, on the river Ban, lets for 

 <^ool. a year ; and all the fifheries are his to 

 the leap at Colraine. The eflate is fuppofed 

 to be 31 ,ocol. a year, the greateft at prefent 

 in Ireland. Innifhoen, in Donnegal, is his, 

 and is n,oool. of it. In Antrim, Lord An- 

 trim's is the moft extenfive property, being 4 

 baronies, and 173,000 acres. The rent 8000I. 

 a year, but relet for 64,0001. a year, by tenants 

 that have perpetuities, perhaps the crueleft 

 jnftance in the world of carelefTnefsfor the in- 

 terefts of poflerity. The prefent Lord's father 

 granted thofe leafes. 



Mr. 



