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linens fhould be incomparably more lafting than 

 the coarfer ones) make a diftinclion between 

 boiling and bucking, the firft is the moft fe- 

 vcre operation, and therefore neceffary for the 

 tough materials, the other proper for the coarfe 

 and weaker ones. But they are the fame thing 

 if done with attention ; a thorough bucking is 

 equal to a mild boiling, but depending both on 

 the degree in which they are performed. With 

 regard to rubbing boards, the general preju- 

 dice to them being founded on facl, can only 

 arife from the bleachers faving foap •, if ufed 

 in a proper quantity, there is not the lealt 

 objection to them. 



Account of flax about Ballymoat. The 

 greater part of the poor people about Bally- 

 moat allot about half a rood of land to the 

 growth of flax, the rent 7s. 6d. this is fown 

 with about five gallons of feed, medium price 

 5s. 6d. the 5 gallons. From breaking and 

 fcutching, the above yields to the grower, from 

 84 to 112 cwt. that is, 6 to 8 Hone. If the 

 flax be dried, as well as broke and fcutched at 

 the mill, the charge is i6d. aftone-, if only 

 the two latter, it is only i4d. or if fcutched, 

 only iod. After fcutching, it is worth, rough, 

 5 s. to 6s. a ftone> 



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