3 o8 KINGSTON. 



Farms in general are from loo to 1 500 acres; 

 and rents from 1 2s. to 15 s. an acre. Ten years 

 ago flocks amounted to 9 or 10,000, but now 

 not above 2000. Average rent of the whole 

 county 1 os. From Elphin towards Kingfton, 

 efpecially near the latter, the foil ranks among 

 the fineil 1 have any where feen. It is a dry 

 found mellow fandy loam, deep and very rich, the 

 herbage excellent. It is generally under fheep 

 with many bullocks. 



To Lord Kingfton's, to whom I had a letter, 

 but unfortunately for me he was at Spaw. 

 Walked down to Longford Hill, to view the 

 lake ; it is one of the mod delicious fcenes I ever 

 beheld, a lake of 5 miles by 4, which fills the 

 bottom of a gentle valley almoft of a circular 

 form, bounded very boldly by the mountains. 

 Thofe to the left rife in a noble Hope; they low- 

 er rather in front, and let in a view of Strand 

 mountain, near Sligo, above 20 miles off. To 

 the right, you look over a fmall part of a bog 

 to a large extent of cultivated hill, with the blue 

 mountains beyond. Were this little piece of 

 bog planted, the view would be more complete; 

 the hill on which youftand has a foliage of well 

 grown trees, which form the fouthern more. 

 You look down on 6 iflands, all wooded, and 

 on a fine promontory to the left, which moots 

 far into the lake. Nothing can be more pleating 

 than their uncommon variety ; the firftis fmall, 

 (Rock Ifland) tufted with trees, under the made 

 of which is an antient building, once the refi- 

 dence of Macdermot. The next a mixture of 



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