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A view of the duties on imports and exports in the port ofSligo 

 for twenty years, ending Lady-day, 1775. 



Mr. Cooper has remarked, that the great 

 improvement of this part of Ireland commenced 

 about the year 1748, and that rents now are, 

 to what they were before that period, as fifteen 

 to fix. Some farms bought in 1725, at $s. 6d. 

 an acre, and 20 years purchafe, are now let 

 at 1 8s. 



Auguft 26th, left Mercra, and went to Bal- 

 lafadore, when I had great pleafure in viewing 

 the falls; the river breaks over rocks in the 

 moft romantic manner, from edge to edge, in 

 many falls, for the fpace of two hundred yards 

 before it comes to the principal one, which is 

 twelve or fourteen feet perpendicular; the 

 fcenery about it is bold, the features of the 



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