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ceived me with the utmoft politenefs, hut was 

 fo obliging as to fend for a neighbouring gen- 

 tleman, in order between them, with other 

 afTiit.ance, to anfwer all my queiiions, which 

 •was done in the molt attentive and fatisfactory 

 manner. About which place the rent of land, 

 on an average, 1 5s. Some of the mountains, 

 that are not lime-fione, let for very little, 2s. 

 but the lime-fione ones are good land univer- 

 fally, and yield almoft as high rent as the reft 

 of the country. Farms in culture are exceed- 

 ingly fmall, the poor people divide and take 

 them in partnership, four or five to a plough 

 land of 100 acres, but they fubdivide down to 

 five or fix acres, and in general ail the tillage 

 is done by thefe little occupiers. There are 

 fome large grazing farms up to above 1000 

 acres, which are under fheep and bullocks. 

 One feventh of the county may be reckoned 

 bog, and unimproved mountain, "and the other 

 6-7ths, r 5s. Mayo one third, perhaps half, 

 bog and mountain, and two-thirds, at 1 2s. 

 Galway more than one-third bog, mountain 

 and lakes. The courfes of crops purfued 

 here ; 



1. Potatoes. 2. Barley. 3. Cats. 4. Oats. 

 5. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Oats, 8. Left out feven 

 years to fheep. 



I. Potatoes. 2. Flax. 3. Barley. 4. Oats. 

 5. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Oats. 8. Oats. 9. 

 Lay out. 



1. Pota- 



