258 CASTLE CALDWELL. 



from behind fome wood, and breaks over a bed 

 of rocks, not perpendicular but {helving, in 

 various directions, and foams away under the 

 arches; after w T hich it grows more filent, and 

 gives a beautiful bend under a rock, crowned 

 by a fine bank of wood. Reached Cattle Cald- 

 well at night, where Sir James Caldwell re- 

 ceived me with a politenefs and cordiality that 

 will make me long remember it with pleafure. 



Auguft 1 2th. The following account of the 

 hufbandry around Caftle Caldwell, Sir James 

 favoured me with. The foil in the vale to Bel- 

 leek is a yellow clay, 1 to 2 fpit deep on a lime- 

 ftone rock; the whole interfperfed with bog 

 and morafs. Large tracts uncultivated. Rents 

 vary from 15s. to 20s. an acre cultivated, but 

 mountain and mountain fides are not meafured; 

 wherever the plough goes, will yield 7s. at the 

 lowefl. In the mountains they pay but 3s. for 

 the fummer food of a cow; and for a horfe 

 4s. 6d. The county of Fermanagh may be di- 

 vided into 6 parts; one-fixth the lake at no 

 rent. Mountains and bogs two-fixths, the reft 

 of the county at 12s. 



The courfe of crops is; 1. Potatoes. 2. Po- 

 tatoes. 3. Barley or flax. 4. Oats. 5. Oats. 

 6. Oats. 7. Lay out for grafs. Wherever there 

 are fpots of meadow, they are mown. Great 

 numbers of farms are taken in partnership in 

 Rundale ; indeed the general courfe is fo, upon 

 a farm of 100 acres, there will be 4, 5, or 6 

 families : but families will take fuch fmall fpots 

 as 5 or 6 acres. Farms in general rife from 5 



acres 



