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rel roach. He hires 1 100 acres of this bog, of 

 Mr. King of Ballina, at 4I. a year, though he has 

 not improved it, has no doubt of its being im- 

 proveable, and remarks that he never yet faw 

 a bog that had not a fail enough to drain by. In 

 the barony of Tyreragh, there are a few grazing 

 farmers, but not many. Mr. Nefbit is the great- 

 eft, he farms above 3000 acres. Not a 3d of 

 the county is bog and mountain, but more than 

 half Mayo is fo : average rent of the whole 

 county, exclullveof bog and mountain, 16s. an 

 acre. The fhore is a very fruitful one in fea- 

 weed, which is burnt into kelp in fummer ; they 

 pay a rent for it by the ton of what they get. , 



From the ilate quarry to Ennifcrone, 9 miles, 

 they make 200 tons of kelp. The men have 17s. 

 to 20s. a ton For fervine, making, and burning, 

 and it fells at 2I. as. There is not half fo much 

 ufed in manure as in burning. It is made all 

 the way from this country to Galway. Mules, 

 Mr. Browne thinks fuperior to horfes, for car- 

 rying back loads, but much inferior in drawing 

 ploughs and cars. They are fo long lived, that 

 the age is fcarce ever afked when they are bought; 

 they will live in common, in full work, to 30 

 years. They will alfo in bog, draw out their 

 legs infinitely better, though they go deeper in. 

 From 100 ewes, Mr. Browne fells 100 three 

 year old wethers, fat, at 18s. to 20s. alfo 20 old 

 ewes at 13s. 300 fleeces at 41b. at is. or 45I. 

 Buys in yearling bullocks at 40s. and fells out at 

 7I. gets thereby 5L for keeping 2 years and a 

 half. No hay given, except in fnovv. He has 



improved 



