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trim ; on which is situate the former residence 

 of the family. 



On our visit to him this morning, we did not 

 perceive that he pursued a system differing 

 from that in common practice, which is to take 

 as many white crops as the soil with profit will 

 produce ; justifying an observation two hun- 

 dred years ago, of the Irish being great plough- 

 ers, but little spenders of corn. The appear* 

 ances here forcibly impressed us, that were the 

 management equal to the goodness of the land, 

 Mr. Hunt would find abundant employ for 

 the threshing mill which he has lately erected 

 on a good construction. The diminutive oc- 

 cupations and farming establishments must, 

 however, prevent threshing mills from becom- 

 ing general. We could not help lamenting the 

 want of quickset hedges, the introduction and 

 care of which would much improve this part of 

 the sea coast. 



Port Rush is a small neat place, with some 

 comfortable cottages for the accommodation of 

 sea bathers ; the rocks about it are romantic, 

 and show the convulsions to which, probably, 

 they owe their formation. " The strand at 

 Port Rush," observes Whitehurst, " exhibits 

 an awful wreck of the terraqueous globe, con- 

 sisting altogether of immense masses of black 



