// 'hence Dublin might be supplied with Milk. 1 43 



cultivated parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, I am 

 persuaded they could not be of this descrip- 

 tion, tod nd' 



Mr. Sayer has a very good stock of Devon- 

 shire cattle and South Down sheep: his at- 

 tention was directed to the crossing of the lat- 

 ter with the Merino ; but as the experiment has 

 been made so fully and accurately, and lias so 

 completely failed, at Holkham, I was concerned 

 to see him engaged in an inexpedient measure. 



A dairy, on the soiling system, might be 

 made highly profitable. The distance of Mr. 

 Sayer's farm is within reach for supplying Dub- 

 lin, where new milk sells at four-pence the 

 quart. 



The rents paid for land are incredible ! Mr. 

 Talbot has ground let, for the purpose of 

 grazing, at the enormous sum of twenty pounds 

 an acre. 



The obliging attention of Mr. Radclifte pro- 

 cured me the pleasure of inspecting the ancient 

 and celebrated castle of Malahidc, the seat of 

 Colonel Talbot, built in the reign of Henry the 

 Second. It is placed nearly in the centre of an 

 isthmus of about three miles in breadth, which 



