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ing particulars : — Rents about Belleifle are up- 

 on an average 10s an acre for grafs and arable, 

 but mountain (ides are fet by the lump, ac- 

 cording to the number of cattle they feed. The 

 foil is all of blue clay. Farms are generally c;ol. 

 or 60I. a year • where there are weavers they 

 are verv (mail, but the number does not exceed 

 a twentieth of the whole. They, however, in- 

 crease faff j they have doubled their number in 

 10 years. Seventeen years ago, there not bring 

 one bleach mill, Lord Rofs erected one- after 

 which more were built, but in the whole county 

 not more than ten. Average rent of cultivated 

 land in Fermanagh, 10s. Courfe, 1. Potatoes, 



2. Barley, 3. Oats, 4. Oats, 5. Oats. 6. Laid 

 out fix or feven years. 1. Potatoes, 2. Barley, 



3. Oats, 4. Flax, 5. Laid out, fome fow grafs 

 feeds. 



Potatoes yield 20 barrels an acre- each 4 

 bufhels ; they plant two and an half to an acre ; 

 the price from 2s. 6d. to 20s. generally 10s. on 

 ftiff land, two crops of potatoes, but not on 

 light. Barley yields from 10 to [5 barrels; 

 oats from 6 to 10 barrels, but fometimes not 5. 

 Account of flax: 



Rent and tillage -...-'" 



Seed, two bufhels, at 12s. 



Clodding-, 3 boys, at 6d. - 



Pulling, 8 women, at ditto 



Watering, two men and two horfes, the men, 



6d. the horfes, is. 

 Taking out and fpreading, two men and fix 



women - - ■ 040 



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