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30 or 40 years ago. His breed of fheep Is alfb 

 excellent, being much improved by rams from 

 England. He improves much moory land and 

 bog, generally 1 o or 15 acres every year, by 

 lime-ftone gravel and marie. Average rent of 

 Tyreragh 1 2s. Walked in the evening to a 

 moft noble garden, walled and planted by Mr. 

 King : it is one of the completed I have feen in 

 Ireland. 



Auguft 28th, took my departure from Balli- 

 na, and waited on the bifhop of Killala. I wifhed 

 to have fome information concerning that vail 

 wild and impenetrable tracl of mountain and 

 bog, the barony of Erris. His Lordfhip and 

 Mr. Hutchefon were fo kind as to give me every 

 particular in their power. The only cultivated 

 part is the peninfula called the Mullet, where 

 they plant a good deal of potatoes, barley, and 

 flax, by means of fea weed ; and there is a rab- 

 bit warren, the fkins of the rabbits yielding 

 iool. a year. The reft of it is without cultiva- 

 tion, except in fmall patches here and there; 

 and it is fuppoled, generally fpeaking, to be 

 without lime- Hone or lime-ftone gravel, but 

 probably no great fearch has been made in fo 

 dreary a region. It is no eafy matter to get in 

 or out of it in winter; and very few perfons 

 ever attempt it from November to Eafter, hav- 

 ing impaffable bogs in the w T ay. There were 

 896 families in the barony in 1765, 400 of 

 which are inhabitants of the Mullet : 47 pro- 

 teftant, and 849 popifh. The bifhop of Killalla 

 has built a houfe in the Mullet for a clergyman, 



who 



