128 Supply of Fish from Lough Neagh. 



with cut g^rass during the day, and turning 

 them out at night. He thought highly of the 

 practice, not only as to the increased produce 

 he obtained, but as it augmented the quantity 

 of his dung. He considered the additional 

 manure equal to the expense incurred,, and that 

 his clover, mown and carted to his stock, fed 

 double the number he could have grazed upon 

 it. He stated his farm to consist of about one 

 hundred acres, which we should gladly have 

 visited had not our road been in an opposite 

 direction, as I should have been most happy to 

 have given him encouragement in so beneficial 

 though novel a practice in this country, by 

 offering him on the spot the results of my ex- 

 periments on a larger scale. 



The market is abundantly supplied with very 

 fine fish from the Lough, which abounds with a 

 variety of species of trout. The dorchar is 

 peculiar to Lough Neagh. I saw some of good 

 size; they are darker in colour, and broader on 

 the shoulder than trouts are commonly. 



Lough Neagh receives a number of tributary 

 streams, among which the Black Water, made 

 navigable by means of a canal to Newry, is the 

 principal one. The Bann, or White Water, is 

 the outlet of the Lough into the sea, and dis- 



