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The farms around .Weftport are in general 

 large, from 400 acres to 4 or 5000, all which 

 are ftock farms ; and the occupiers re-let the 

 cultivated lands, with the cabbins, at a very 

 increafed rent, to the oppreflion of the poor, 

 who have a ftrong averfion to renting of thefe 

 tierny begs. The foil in general is a cold 

 fpewy ftoney clay and loam -, the beil lands in 

 the country are the improved moors. Rents 

 rife from 2s. for heath, to 1 6s. for good land. 

 Average 8s. about three-fifths of the country 

 unimproved mountains, bog and lake. Great 

 tracts of mountain, but bogs not very exten- 

 sive. Clara Ifland 2,400 acres, at 300L a year; 

 Achill 24,000 acres, at2ool. a year; Bofin iool. 

 a year, and is above 1 200 acres. It belongs 

 to Lord Clanrickard. The courfe of this coun- 

 try, 1. Potatoes, manured with fea-weed : this 

 is fo ftrong that they depend entirely on it, 

 and will not be at the trouble to carry out 

 their own dunghills. On the fhore, towards 

 Joyce's country, they actually let their dung- 

 hills accumulate y till they become fuch a nuifance y 

 thai they move their cabbins in order to get from 

 them. A load of wrack is worth, at leaft, fix 

 loads of dung. They do not take half what is 

 thrown in. On the fhore, open to the Atlan- 

 tic, there is a leather fort of Alga, which comes 

 in in the fpring. The kelp w 7 eed grows only 

 where it is fheltered. The coaft of Lord Alta- 

 mont's domain and iflands let for iool. a year 

 for making kelp. 



1. Potatoes. 2. Barley. 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 



1 . Pota- 



