270 ENNISKILLEN. 



The barley on the ifland after the potatoes is 

 exceedingly fine. When you come abrealt of 

 the round tower, look backwards, to the right 

 the fcenery is very beautiful, the wood at the 

 extremity, the waving hills under grafs and 

 corn, which fpread over this whole coaft, form 

 alfo the fcenery in front, and unite with the 

 lake to make a moft pleafing landfcape. Landed 

 at Ennilkillen, and that evening reached Caftle 

 Cool, the feat of A. Lowry Corry, Efq; who 

 was abfent in the county of Tyrone, but Mrs. 

 Corry was fo obliging as to procure me the in- 

 formation I wifhed. 



Auguft 1 5th, rode to the Topped Mountain, 

 from whence is an immenfe profpect of many 

 counties, and commanding Loch Earne from 

 one end to the other, being above 40 miles 

 long ; the great fheet is towards Caftle Cald- 

 well, that to Belturbet is fo thickly ftrewed 

 with iflands, that the water has more the ap- 

 pearance of feveral w T oods. Around Ennifkill- 

 en, &c. land lets on an average at 10s. to 12s. 

 an acre that is cultivated, but there is fome 

 mountain and bog that lets for little or nothing. 

 Farms are various, many fmall ones of a few 

 acres, but the moft common fize is 40 to 70 

 acres, with fome large flock ones of 2 or 300I. 

 a year : the foil is principally a wet tenacious 

 clay. The fyflem of thefe flock farms is, to 

 keep cattle of various ages, from year-olds to 

 fat ones of 5 years, according to the quality 

 of the land : they keep but few fheep. Weav- 

 ing is but juft coming in, but increafes much ; 



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