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owner is a periodical profit from cutting its 

 beautiful woods. Shelter, profped, wood and 

 water, are here in perfection ; what more can 

 be wifhed for in a. retreat, if an unambitious 

 mind gilds the fcene with what neither wood 

 nor water can give — content ? The facrilesi- 

 ous axe has defolated three parts in four of its 

 noble covering ; and it will be 1 5 years before 

 the rough ground and naked flubs are again 

 cloathed. 



Pafs the hanging grounds of Caftle Hume; 

 fome of them very beautifully crowned with 

 wood, and the oppofite coaft of the lake, wood 

 and cultivation. Car and Ferny iflands bold 

 lands cut into fields of corn give a frefh vari- 

 ety, and the woods of Caftle Hume furround a 

 bay to the right, at the bottom of which is the 

 Cattle half hidden with trees. It opens, how- 

 ever, to the view foon after, and accompanied 

 on each fide by a fine wood, and the furround- 

 ing ground various. The lake then takes the 

 form of a bay, between fome pretty cultivated 

 Hopes on one fide, and Devenifh iiland on the 

 other, with its tower full in view. Advancing:, 

 the coaft on the right confifts of beautiful cul- 

 tivated hills, divided into inclofures by hedg- 

 es, and the waving hills rifing one beyond ano- 

 ther in a various and pleafing manner; the 

 oppofite fhore is the fame, but the view more 

 diftant. The iiland of Devenifh is part of it 

 very rich land; the poor people pay 5I. an acre 

 for the old grafs for one crop of potatoes. 

 About Ballyfhannon, it is 3I. or 4I. per acre. 



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