1 80 Scottish Mode of Hay-making. 



Scotch mode, by making the haycocks very 

 large, and terminating the apex of their cones 

 in a sharp point : several months are suffered 

 occasionally to elapse before the hay is stacked ; 

 the consequence of which is, that it does not 

 sufficiently ferment, and it is always soft. 

 Good hay is rarely to be met with in Ireland, 

 which must certainly arise from improper ma- 

 nagement. 



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Those delightful undulations, that variety of 

 mountain and valley, which had given such 

 peculiar beauty to the portion of the country 

 we had seen, no longer attracted our attention. 

 A regular, almost uninterrupted, and certainly 

 uninteresting, slope from the hills to the sea 

 was here presented to our observation until we 

 reached the village of Lessenaugh. 



Unfavourable as were the impressions which 

 the general barrenness, the want of fences, and 

 the rude cultivation of a few spots about the 

 village, had made on our minds as we ap- 

 proached Lessenaugh, these were but preludes 

 to the painful feelings which our further exami- 

 nation subjected us to experience on our ar- 

 riving within the village itself. A character of 

 such wretchedness was here discernible as to 

 exceed any thing of the kind that we had yet 

 encountered; and whilst it arrested our close 



