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and opinions of others, I could have detailed 

 numerous anecdotes which would greatly have 

 diversified my observations, and rendered them 

 more entertaining to you; but the objections I 

 stated to this species of registry at the com- 

 mencement of my tour have not since been 

 violated. 



In the course of the morning, we drove ta 

 several farms on Mr. Edgeworth's estate. The 

 occupations were larger, and the farming build- 

 ings more extensive, than we had hitherto gene- 

 rally met with. Considerable attention Is paid 

 to the fences, but the husbandry was far from 

 perfection. The tenants are to be considered 

 rather as grazing than tillage farmers. The 

 soil, when not incumbent on bog, is a strong 

 clay. The average size of the farms is about 

 one hundred acres, let at about thirty shillings 

 an acre. This seems comparatively a moderate 

 rent. 



Longford, from the flatness of its surface, 

 ought to be an early county ; late sowing how- 

 ever, and other bad management, accounted 

 for our seeing much of the corn still uncut. 

 Winter ploughing is here held to be injurious, 

 and is supposed to make the land work badly 

 so little do modern practices seem to have made 

 their way in this country. 



