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vember, at il. 1 rs. 6d. profit, and a 5;ood acre 

 will carry one of them, but in general it v ill 

 take more. No dairies. Some Oie :p are kept, 

 the lambs fold, at three and four months old, 

 at 5s. to 1 os. 6d. each, 7s or 8s. in general; the 

 wool of the ewe, 4s. 4d. Some buy two or 

 three year old wethers, f©r fattening, in June, 

 at 15s. and fell them fat in March or April 

 following, at il. is. to 1 1. 6^. Breeding ew<es 

 reckoned the mod profitable, unlefs the land is 

 very good. In moory land, they ufe lime for 

 manuring, at 7d. a barrel, but if the farmer 

 burns it himfelf, and has the (tone convenient, 

 it is done for 3d. with turf. A good deal of 

 hollow draining, filled with ftones, fome with 

 fods, but done only by gentlemen. Much corn, 

 &c. by poor people, put in with fpades., which 

 they call loys, becaufe they have no horfes, and 

 one acre of oats dug, is worth one and a half 

 ploughed j fome do it on this account, though 

 they have horfes. 



Lord Rofs has generally a fmall field of tur- 

 nips and cabbages for feeding fheep in the win- 

 ter ; finds that cabbages are much the Deft, and 

 lafts the longeft. 



Auguft 17th, rowed to Knockinny, the deer- 

 park, three miles acrofs the lake, through a 

 maze of woody iflands. Land on Lady Rols's 

 of 40 acres, in which fhe has cut walks leading 

 through a great variety of ground ■, in fo pe pla- 

 ces through open groves of large trees, in others 

 clofe dark wood} through lawns and rough 

 T 2, ground, 



