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Lifting, three women, one horfe, and one man 030 

 Drying, two men and two women, 2s. and fix 



kitties of turf, 6s. - - - .£.080 

 Beetling at the mill, by the ftone. 



The linen wove here, is from 6 to 18,000, 

 but in general 1200. A woman fpins one 

 hank, for which file has three half pence and 

 board, if no board, four pence; the length of 

 the webs vary, fome ten yards, bat in general 

 double ones of fifty yards; it takes two hanks 

 of yarn to every yard of the web; the weavers 

 have five pence a yard for weaving it, and they 

 will do three yards a day ; they feli it at monthly 

 markets. They breed up their fons more and 

 more to weaving, as it increafes much, and 

 thefe people pay their rents by it, but they 

 fend off much more yarn than they weave. 



The food of the poor is potatoes, butter-milk, 

 and oat-bread. They all keep cows and pigs. 

 Moft of the country is under grazing, fome of 

 which farms rife to 500I. a year. They gene- 

 rally buy in year-old calves, for which they 

 give, on an average, il. is. to il 5s. and keep 

 them till they are four years old, and fell them 

 lean to the graziers of other countries, who 

 have land that will fatten : fell them 5I. to 61. 

 a bullock, thus, every year, they buy in, and 

 fell out a ftock. Upon a farm in the neighbour- 

 hood, of 350I. a year, befides horfes, cows, and 

 fheep, the farmer fells one hundred bullocks 

 every year. Many cows are fattened, bought 

 in in May at 2I. 10s. to 5I. and fold out in No- 

 vember, 



