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the fpinning is common all over the county in 

 every cabbin, by the women and girls : they 

 do not quite raife flax enough to fupply their 

 own demand. 



The courfe of crops moft general is, 1. Po- 

 tatoes. 2. Barley. 3. Oats. 4. Flax. 5. 

 Laid out for grafs. Farms very much ta- 

 ken in the rundale way by partnership. 



The people increafe very faft in this neigh- 

 bourhood, and are in better circumftances than 

 they were fome years ago. Some live on pota- 

 toes and milk, for all keep cows, and they 

 eat fome flefh meat. The number of little 

 farmers who are fupported by their farms alone 

 is confiderable, from whence it is plain that 

 linen has not taken deep root. There are two 

 bleach greens within 7 miles, and all they bleach 

 is made in the country. A woman will earn 

 4d. a day by fpinning, and do fomething in the 

 family befides. The manure principally ufed 

 is lime, which on an average-cofts them about 

 Sd. a barrel, and they lay 80 and upwards per 

 acre. 



Auguft 15th, to Belleille, the charming feat 

 of the Earl of Rofs. It is an ifland in Loch 

 Earne of 200 Iriih acres, every part of it hill, 

 dale, and gentle declivities : it has a great, deal 

 of wood, much of which is old, and forms 

 both deep fhades, and open chearful groves. 

 The trees hang on the ilopes, and confequently 

 (hew themfclves to the befl advantage. All 



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