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from 3000 to 5000, and the price is from thir- 

 teen pence to two and fixpence, the medium 

 is. 8d. per hundred, or 16s. 8d. per thoufand; 

 consequently a night's work 2I. 10s. The boat 

 is 4 ton, and cofts 20I. and the nets iol. Seven 

 fhare of nets to each boat- each fhare fixty 

 yards long, and four fathom deep, eight fcore 

 rnefti. The nets are all made here ; the poor 

 people ufe flax, but others ufe hemp j they bark 

 them, but none tar and oil. The fifhery was 

 once much more confiderable than at prefent. 

 There is no fhip belonging to this port, they had 

 one, but that wicked fellow, Thurot took her, 

 and quite unfhipped the harbour. 



Auguft 29th, took my leave of the good bi- 

 fhop, to whom, and his fon, Mr. Hutchefon, I 

 am obliged for the preceding particulars and 

 many civilities. Breakfafted with the Rev. Mr. 

 Garrat, at Foxford 3 palled over fome very fine 

 reddifTi fandy loams, till I came to a hill, from 

 whence an extenfive tracl of bog is feen. Rents 

 about Foxford are 12s. for cultivated, arable, 

 and pafture, and thence to Caftle-bar the fame. 

 From Foxford to Tubbercurry fixteen miles of 

 bad country ; the beft of the cultivated land 

 12s. fome at 8s. and 10s. but thefe rents are 

 only the improved fpots : they are improving 

 the moors and mountains very fa ft, particularly 

 the eftates of Mr. Rutledge and Lynch. It is 

 done with white marie from under bogs. It 

 muft not be imagined that when I fpeak of 

 mountains and moors in Mayo, or its wild ba- 

 rony Erris, that thefe lands yield no rent ; they 



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