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keep them till three or four years old, and fell 

 thern lean at 5I. to 5I. 10s. buying in fome every 

 year, and felling out the fame number. Fat- 

 ting cows is alfo very common, bought in in 

 May, at 3I. to 5I. and fold out in October, at 

 30s, to 40s. profit. It is not reckoned bad land, 

 if three acres fatten two. No cows For dairies, 

 they are kept only by little people. Ploughing 

 all with horfes, a pair a-breaft, but no drawing 

 by the tail j this practice they utterly deny here. 

 Land fells rack-rent at 1 84 years purchafe. Let 

 for ever and well fecured, 20 years purchafe. 

 The price has fallen within four years ; rents 

 have alfo fallen three (hillings in the pound 

 in fix years, and are at prefent falling, from 

 the low prices of grain. Tythes taken gene-* 

 rally by the pro&ors, who are very civil to 

 gentlemen, but exceedingly cruel to the poor. 

 The country evidently encreafes very much in 

 population : the people are in better circumftan- 

 ces than they were 20 years ago, better cloathed, 

 better fed, and more induftrious ; yet at prefent 

 it is found, and I have had the fame remark 

 made to me, at many other places, that they 

 only work to eat, and when provifions are 

 plenty, will totally idle away fo much of their 

 time, that there is fcarce any fuch thing as get- 

 ting work done. The religion is principally 

 Roman ; no emigrations. There is a better yeo- 

 manry than is common in Ireland. Many far- 

 ers, of from 1 co to 2 50 acres. Rent of a cabbin 

 and garden, 30s. A cow's grafs il. 10s. All 

 the cottars have fome land : all keep cows, and 

 many pigsa^d geele. 1 remarked for fome time 



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