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of young trees, which had a general appearance 

 of being in a thriving state. I much regretted 

 I had no means of introduction to Mr. Stewart, 

 with whose valuable improvements I should 

 have been delighted in an opportunity of be- 

 coming better acquainted. As we passed a 

 farm-house, building by this gentleman, I could 

 not resist requesting the workmen to convey to 

 their employer the sentiments of admiration 

 his plantations had inspired in the breast of a 

 brother planter. This is by far the most spirited 

 improvement we had yet seen in Ireland, and 

 the first of magnitude to induce inquiry after 

 its author. 



By the side of a bog we observed a few 

 miserable merino sheep. On dry and elevated 

 pasture they might make a tolerably good shift ; 

 but on wet low ground thriving is not to be 

 expected. 



Two miles further on is a small town, the 

 creation of Mr. Stewart, recently sold to Lord 

 Montgomery. The crops are much later here 

 than even in the county of Antrim. Mr. Arthur 

 Young states, that there were no wheel cars in 

 this part of the country when he visited it ; at 

 present a sledge is not to be seen ; the Scotch 

 carts being very common. In less than twenty 



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