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prefent at is. 9c!. which is $d. a day earning, 

 but in common only 4d. Flax yields per acre 

 fcutched 37 Cwt. at 6^,d. per pound, fells on 

 foot at 61. to 81. expenfes per acre, fcutching 

 included, 5I. 14s. 



The ifle of Inch belongs to Lord Donnegal -, 

 300L rent, and 6000I. fine, and the occupying 

 tenants pay 1 ,iool. a year, there are 2000 acres. 

 The fize of farms in Inniflioen are from 10 to 

 20 acres, with a run on the mountains for 

 cattle. They have lime ftone in many parts 

 of the country, (hells in great plenty in the 

 lochs, which fell at 3d. a barrel for burning 

 into lime; other rotten (hells in whole banks 

 for manure, which they ufe much, laying 40 

 barrels per acre. The foil a flaty gravel mixed 

 with clay, with fprings : the effect of the 

 fhells not great, except upon mountain land 

 drained, where they throw up white clo- 

 ver. There is a fall in the rent of lands in 4 

 or 5 years. Religion generally roman catholic. 

 Sea weed much ufed for potatoes j and excel- 

 lent for garden cabbages. 



Rowed frow Fawn to Inch Ifland acrofs the 

 loch, the fcenery amazingly fine, the lands 

 every where high and bo'd, with one of the 

 nobleft outlines any where to be feen. Inch is 

 a prodigioufly fine extenfive ifland, all high 

 lands, with cultivation fpreading over it, little 

 clufters of cabbins with groups of wood: the 

 water of a great depth : and a fafe harbour for 

 any number of fhips : here is the great refort 

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