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mon, that men with guns are fet to kill and 

 frighten them. 



Auguft 30th, rode to Rofshill, four miles off, 

 a headland that projects into the bay of New- 

 port, from which there is a moil beautiful view 

 of the bay on both fides; I counted thirty 

 iflands very diftin&ly, all of them cultivated 

 under corn and potatoes, or paftured by cattle. 

 At a diftance, Clara rifes in a very bold and 

 pi&urefque flile ; on the left, Crow Patrick, 

 and to the right, other mountains. It is a 

 view that wants nothing but wood. 



Auguft 31ft, to Newbrook, over a various 

 country, part wafte, and much cultivated. 

 About Caitle-Burk, the road croffed a moft re- 

 markable ftoney natural pavement, regularly 

 furrounded with grafs trenches, all on a flat. 

 Faffed the ruins of a very fine abbey; reached 

 Holymount, Mr. Lindiay's, a very coniiderable 

 grazier ; about which place, the foil is in gene- 

 ral, a ftoney clay, from fix inches to two feet 

 deep, on lime-itone gravel; it is quite dry 

 found land, and the ftones are lime-ftone. Lets 

 from 1 2s. to 1 5s. an acre. Farms are very ex- 

 tenfive, up to three or four thoufand acres, all 

 flock ones, with portions re-let to cottars, who 

 are the principal arable men here. They are in 

 the fuccelfion way, buying in year-olds at 40s. 

 keep them till three or four year olds, fome- 

 times only keep them two years, they pay about 

 20S. per annum, on a medium. They are fold, 

 at whatever age, for {lores to the graziers in 



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