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emigrations. Farms are generally let in part- 

 nership, but the term Rundale not known. 

 Labour generally done by cottars, who have 

 land let to them, or grafs for cows, under 

 agreement to work for the landlord. Proviii- 

 ons, which the poor eat, not rifen, but butchers 

 meat doubled. They pluck their geefe alive 

 every year. All carriage done by horfes with 

 bafkets : the bottoms of which fallen with 

 flicks, and let out the load. The induftry of 

 the people very much increafed ; an afloni£h- 

 ing change in induftry, fobriety, &c. and are 

 in much better circumftances in every refpeel, 

 than twenty years ago. They have a practice 

 common among them, which fhews an increa- 

 fing civility in the change from Irifh names to 

 Bnglifh ones. Even iirnames, for inftances 

 Stranaghan, Iriih for birds, which they call 

 themfelves. Markahau, Irilli for a rider, which 

 name they take; Cullane, IriiTi for a whelp, 

 which name they affume; others call them- 

 felves Collins. Conree, Irifh for a king, which 

 they call themfelves \ Ruddery, a knight, and 

 manv others. Among Lord Altamont's labour- 

 ers, is one Mowbray Seymour; his great grand- 

 father was manV.r-w r orker of the mint at Lok- 

 don. There are many Mortimers, Piercys, &c, 

 and within a few years, a Plantagenet, in the 

 county of Sligo. Eagles abound very much in 

 this country, and do great mifchief, by carry- 

 ing away lambs, poultry, &c. they alfo watch 

 the falmon jumping, and feize them even out 

 of the water, by darting with that celerity, of 

 which they arc fuch mailers -, this is fo com- 

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