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Lucerne, Sir Lucius cultivated for fome 

 years, and found while it was attended to, and 

 kept clean, that it was of great ufe for horfes, 

 but his abfence and neglect deftroyed it. Re- 

 lative to fmuggling wool from Clare, he gave 

 me feveral ftrong reafons for believing that 

 there had not been any for fome years ; that 

 county is well fituated for it, and fome (hips 

 fmuggled brandy and tobacco, and could carry 

 it away with great eafe, yet not one goes. 

 Sir Lucius was executor to a man who made 

 a fortune by it twenty-five years ago, but he 

 would never fmuggle when above 10s. a ftone; 

 I had the fame account in Galway. The caufe 

 of the high price of wool, is the admiffion of 

 woollen yarn in all the ports of England, and 

 the increafed demand in the Mancheiter fabric 

 for that yarn, which demand would have ope- 

 rated in England as in Ireland, had the cheap- 

 nefs of fpinning been equal. Another caufe, 

 the increafe of population, and the people be- 

 ing better clad. Sending a pound of wool to 

 France, fmugglers compute to be fix-pence, 

 which is fifty per cent, on the prefent prime 

 coft. Thus the French could get wool much 

 cheaper from England, where the prime coit 

 is lower. There is none from Cork, for being 

 a manufacturing town, the people would not 

 allow it. A duty of 4d. per ftone of iSlb. on 

 woollen and worfted yarn exported, marks the 

 quantity which Ireland grows beyond its own 

 confumption. Raw wool, two thoufand to 

 10,000 ftone, the reft yarn, which is nearly 

 doubled in value by the manufacture. The 

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