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derable. In the lake of Caftle-bar, near that 

 town, is the char, and the Gillaroo trout with 

 gizards, and it is remarkable that there are no 

 pike in the lakes of this country. Land lets 

 at 1 5s. to 20s. cultivated, both grafs and ara- 

 ble : town parks 40s. The mountains are re- 

 claiming by lime-ftone fand and gravel ; it is 

 the common cottars who do it. There are 

 more than 500 affidavits fent to the Dublin 

 Society upon this account, in which I was told 

 they are apt to be deceived, as well as in the 

 corn Handings. There are very large farms in 

 this neighbourhood, even up to 2000I. a year : 

 but all the great ones are ftock farms, and moft 

 of the tillage of the country is performed by 

 little fellows, cottars, and tenants to thefe large 

 farmers. Eight or nine years ago there were 

 no linens here, but now 300 pieces are fold in 

 a week, 200 looms are employed in the town 

 and neighbourhood, yet great quantities of 

 yarn are fent ofT. The town, which belongs 

 to Lord Lucan, is greatly rifing from manufac- 

 tures j the houfes are well built, yet only 31 

 years, or 3 lives granted. 



In the evening reached Weftport, Lord Alta- 

 mont's, whofe houfe is very beautifully iitu- 

 ated, upon a ground rifing gently from a fine 

 river, which makes two bold falls within view 

 of his windows, and fheltered on each fide by 

 two large hanging woods • behind, it has a very 

 fine view of the bay, with feveral headlands 

 projecting into it one beyond another, with two 

 or three cultivated iflands, and the whole 



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