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the rich countries. Another fyftem is, to buy in 

 cows in May, at 2I. 12s. 6d.to 3I. and make about 

 il. 10s. profit. A cow will take an acre, but 

 there will be an after-grafs, worth 5s. an acre, 

 for ilieep. The fheep fyftein is breeding and 

 felling three-year old wethers fat, the wool, 

 and the culled ewes. Above half the county 

 bog, mountain, and lake. Folding fheep, I 

 fuppofe, will come in here, for they have got 

 very near it. They drive their fheep to a fpot 

 of grafs, which they let for giafs potatoes, at 

 3I. 1 os. to 5I. an acre, doing this at night, till 

 the land is well dunged. The crops are eight 

 tons on an average : 



1. Potatoes. 2. Bere, if fanded, 8 to 10 

 barrels. 3. Bere. 4. Oats, 8 to 10 barrels. 

 5. Oats, 8 barrels. 6. Oats, 8 barrels. 7. 

 Flax. 8. Wheat. .9 Sand for the bere, if 

 for potatoes the fand docs hurt, unlets it lies 

 two or three years on the grafs. 3 cwt. the 

 barrel of bere, the fame, which is furprifing. 

 4 cwt. of wheat. 



September ift. to Tuam; dined with the 

 Archbifhop. All this country is a good found 

 lime-itoneland, and famous for fheep, but upon 

 enquiry, I found it did not materially vary from 

 the neighbourhood of Holymount, or Moniva, 

 whither I was going in the evening. Reached 

 Mr. French's, at that place, to whofe very 

 obliging attention I am indebted for the fol- 

 lowing interefling particulars: he has improved 

 60 acres of bog, and 290 of moor, which he 



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