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wet with fprings, with confiderable trads of 

 bog. Rents are from 1 5s. to 20s. the Cun- 

 ningham acre, and fome to 25s. and about 

 towns fome up to 30s. and 40s. Average rent 

 of the whole county not more than is . Farms 

 vary from 5 to 40 acres, in general 2 5 or 30, 

 very many from 7 to 10. They are leffened 

 by the farmers dividing them among their chil- 

 dren. They generally fow flax, drefs a ~d fpin 

 it in their families. When cloth fells well, 

 they get it wove by the weavers, who are alfo 

 little farmers. At other times they fell the 

 flax in yarn at market, many of them never 

 having any woven at all. The fpinners in a 

 little farm are the daughters and a couple of 

 maid fervants, that are paid 30s. a half year, 

 and the common bargain is, to do a hank a 

 day of 3 or 4 hank yarn. Much more than half 

 the flax of the country is worked into cloth - 9 

 a great deal of flax is imported at Derry, this 

 country not railing near enough for its own 

 manufacture ; their own is much the fineft. 

 Their tillage is exceeding bad, the land not 

 half ploughed, and they like to have much 

 grafs among the corn for improving the fod- 

 der. Their courfe is; 



1. Potatoes on 3 years lay. 2. Barley 10 

 barrels. 3. Oats 5 to 1 2 barrels. 4. Oats. 5. 

 Oats. 6. Lay for weeds 3 years. 



I. Potatoes. 2. Barley. 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 

 5. Flax 480 lb. clean fcutched, or 30 (lone. 



They 



