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and {locking farms, they manage to as to do 

 without capital ; a grazier will re-let to his 

 cottars as much of his land as high as he can \ 

 enough to pay his rent or near it, and as to 

 the poor fellow, he manages with very little. 

 3I. per acre will do for buying the cattle for a 

 grazing farm. 



Land fells at 20 years purchafe, rack rent. 

 The rents are lefs than 5 or 6 years ago, but 

 are rather rifing at prefent. Tythes are gene- 

 rally taken in kind-, they are let to tythe proc- 

 tors, who are paid wheat 8s. Barley 6s. Oats 

 4s. Flax 8s. Potatoes none tythed in Con- 

 naught. Hay 3s. Leafes 3 lives, or 31 years. 

 Much of it let on leafes renewable for ever. 

 Middlemen, who occupy none, is a practice 

 declining, but not gone out. Two bolting 

 mills erected, which begin to encreafe the crops 

 of wheat, and promife to change the face of 

 the country. The people throughout it increafe 

 very fail mod undoubtedly. Their circumftan- 

 ces in general are infinitely better than 20 years 

 ago j they are cloathed and fed better, are much 

 more induftrious ; fpalpeens going from hence 

 decline much, and will foon be entirely out. 

 Rent of a cabbin and garden 20s. The grafs 

 of a cow 30s. There were fome emigrations 

 to America, but not confiderable, and fome of 

 them are come back again. The religion in 

 general catholic ; but more protectants than in 

 any other county in Connaught. In the baro- 

 nies of Liny and Corra, there are many Mile- 

 fian irifh ; in Mayo more ft ill, all of the Spanifh 

 breed. The food of the poor people is pota- 

 toes, 



