104 Bangor. 



knowledge or efforts of the cultivators. The 

 corn was at this time ready for harvesting. 



Bangor is a small port on the bay of Belfast, 

 The honorable Mr. Ward is meritoriously at-< 

 tempting great improvements in the harbour ; 

 and, should his labours succeed, much shelter 

 will be afforded to vessels of small draft of 

 water in tempestuous weather. The port, how- 

 ever, is not likely to attract any considerable 

 trade. There is one cotton mill, but the works 

 at it are at present suspended. The two pro- 

 fessions of farmer and manufacturer are here 

 mostly united, not profitably I much fear, hav- 

 ing ever considered them as incompatible with 

 each other. 



A farm of one hundred acres is considered, 

 in this neighbourhood, to be a great, nay ex-r 

 traordinary undertaking. Thirty acres are about 

 the number in the occupation of one individual, 

 of which, niost commonly, a small part is sub- 

 let to cottiers, one or more of whom arq 

 attached to every farm. 



Such a system has the effect of augmenting the 

 population to a ruinous extent, while the sub- 

 division of land into such patches is an effectual 

 to any material improvement in the hus* 



