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if they would lay it in heaps till rotten, or made* 

 comports, neither of which they ever do at all, 

 this would not be the cafe. They manure with 

 it every fix or feven years. Mr. Irwin fpreads 

 it in his pound upon a flratum of potatoe flalks, 

 and over both one of turf and mould, for cattle 

 to tread on to manure, this is a moil excellent 

 practice. The mountains nearefl to the fea, are 

 chiefly flocked with lheep, and farther in, with 

 young cattle near the bog. Upon a part of 

 thefe mountains, of three miles in extent, what- 

 ever fheep feed, are immediately killed by the 

 flaggers, and horfes affected -, there is a good 

 deal of lime-flone, and the land is dry, and to 

 appearance, and in fact, good; it fattens bul- 

 locks; it is attributed to the lead mines, which 

 this part is fuppofed to be full of. When firft 

 affected, if brought down to a fait marfh, it re- 

 covers them immediately. Within a few miles 

 of Tanrego, is Glanefk, and Loch Alt, fix to 

 ten miles broad, and 20 long, one continued 

 chain of mountain and bog. Threerfourths of 

 Siigo bog, and uncultivated mountain. In the 

 above tract, lime-flone every where, in fome, 

 lime-flone gravel, and a good road runs through 

 it j in all this no cultivation or improvements. 

 Mr. Irwin, upon a part of this country, tried 

 about an acre of boggy, moory mountain, to fee 

 if paring and burning would do, it anfwered 

 greatly, and the belt potatoes in the country 

 were there next year. Lime he alfo tried, and 

 with great fuccefs ; he did this in order to fhew 

 the people that their wafles were improveable. 

 Upon the fea-fhore are immenfe beds of oyfler 



fhells, 



