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and twenty acres of wheat, and his green crops 

 bore a good proportion to those of his grain, 

 One hundred head of oxen are fed annually 

 for market, besides a great number of sheep. 

 A grass farm adjoining his residence is now to 

 be let; the rent demanded is six guineas per 

 acre, which is four times as much rent as Mr, 

 A. Young speaks of in the year 1778. I cer- 

 tainly do not know of a soil superior in qua- 

 lity : as a proof of the value in which it is held, 

 a level has been driven in limestone for a con- 

 siderable way in order to drain a few acres of it, 

 which were liable to be flooded. 



Great improvements are making in the road 

 near Dromoland, and a large cut is nearly com- 

 pleted, which will considerably reduce the as- 

 cent of the hill. We stopped to take a view of 

 the mode in which the work proceeded, by a 

 number of laborers, under the superintendance 

 of a manager. It was really farcical to observe 

 half a dozen stout fellows loading a car, each 

 not lifting, at any time, more than five pounds 

 weight in their shovels ; two English laborers 

 would have done more in the same time than 

 all six. The poor fellows petitioned very ear- 

 nestly for tobacco ; but they would have been 

 much affronted to have had it supposed they 

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