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They plant 14 meafures, each 2 bnfliels of 

 potatoe-feed an acre, the crop from 8 to 12 

 fcore meaiures. The flax I faw was nothing 

 but weeds and rubbifh of all kinds, yet the 

 crop itfelf had an appearance of being good, 

 as if the land was not to blame. As to ma- 

 nuring, they ufe very little more than the trifle 

 they make in their ftable and cow-houfe. A 

 few ufe lime, but not many; the price is iod. 

 to 1 3d. a barrel : a .little woollen cloth v/eaved, 

 but not near enough to cloath themfelves. 

 They import a great deal from Gal way. Land 

 fells at 24 and 26 year's purchafe. Rents are 

 very much railed ; but they are fallen within 



4 or 5 years > in 40 years conjecture that they 

 are doubled. Tythes are compounded. Oats 

 pay 5s. Barley 7s. Potatoes, flax, and hay, 



5 s. In fome places potatoes free. Leafes 

 ufually for 3 lives. Lord Abercorn only for 

 twenty-one years and no lives, yet his eftate is 

 w 7 ell cultivated. The farmers generally re-let 

 fome of their lands to cottars at a great in- 

 creafe of rent. The poor people live upon 

 oatmeal, milk, potatoes, and herrings; but 

 the pooreft eat very little meat. A farmer of 

 iol. a year will have a good meal of beef or 

 bacon every Sunday : in general they all live 

 much better than they did formerly. I re- 

 marked that the labourers carried with them 

 to their work an oat cake and a bottle of milk. 

 All their milk is kept till fower, till which they 

 do not make butter. Scarce any fuch thing 

 as wheeled cars in the country, they are all 

 Aiding ones: a wheeled one 35s. a Aiding one 



2s. 6d. 



