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ducing the heft breed of Englifh cattle. I had 

 no {light pleafure in feeing great compolis 

 formed of dung and earth, and fea ore, well 

 mixed together, and then carried into his mea- 

 dows. Stands were aifo building for corn 

 ftacks, and under them itandings for cows or 

 oxen, and vaults for potatoes : they are exe- 

 cuted in the moil perfect manner. A fort of 

 oat he has introduced into cultivation, a few 

 grains of which he got by accident, cultivated 

 them carefully in drills, and has got a large 

 quantity now. They are of fo great a body 

 that he calls them Patagonian oats. He fa- 

 voured me with a few for feed. In introducing 

 the linen manufacture, his lordfhip has made 

 great exertions. He found it to conliit princi- 

 pally in fpinning flax, which was fent out of 

 the country, without any looms in it, except 

 a very few, which worked only for their own 

 life. In order to eftabliih it, he built good 

 houfes in the town of Weftport, and let them 

 upon very reafonable terms to weavers, gave 

 them looms, and lent them money to buy yarn, 

 and in order to fecure them from manufactur- 

 ing goods, which they fhould not be able rea- 

 dily to fell, he conitantly bought all they could 

 not fell, which for fome years was all they 

 made ; but by degrees, as the manufacture 

 arofe, buyers came in, fo that he has for fome 

 time not bought any great quantity. The firft 

 year, 1 772, he bought as much as coft him 200I. 

 the next year, 1773, 700I. the next, 177-;-, as 

 much as 20©ol; and in 1775, above 4.CO0J. 

 worth: and this year, 1776, the number of 

 buyers having much increased, he will not lay 



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