258 Extensive Wastes should be planted. 



appearance of a fine place, surrounded with ex- 

 tensive woods. Cultivation is carried to a con- 

 siderable height on the sides of the hills ; the 

 use of lime is very general, and the rent of the 

 land from forty to sixty shillings per acre. 

 On quitting the village of Convoy, we got into 

 a wild country, with a view of one still more 

 alpine before us. 



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There are two distinct causes whence the 

 mind derives infinite satisfaction in exploring 

 a new country. The one is that of beholding 

 all its resources made available, and the surface 

 under a good system of cultivation ; the other, 

 is in estimating the improvements of which it 

 may appear to be capable. Thousands of the 

 neglected acres we have already seen might be 

 advantageously appropriated to the growth of 

 wood. In a circuit of one hundred and forty 

 Irish miles, we have not met with a single ex- 

 periment of modern planting, sufficiently im- 

 portant to entitle the individual to a record of 

 his name as a planter. 



I cannot describe to you the pleasure I felt 

 on the first glance of Mr. Stewart's plantations 

 at Tyrehallam. This gentleman has clothed 

 the sides of an extensive range of hills, in- 

 cluding many hundred acres, with plantations 



