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they dye it different colours, they send it to the 

 weaver, and have excellent clothes of their own ma* 

 niifacture, for all descriptions of apparel, and in 

 which they appear at kirk and market equally well 

 clothed, or at least equally well screened from the 

 inclemency of the weather with their noble proprie- 

 tor. I have myself wore cloth, and particularly 

 stockings of this manufacture, that did not cost me 

 one-fourth of the price, and far outstripped the wear 

 of English cloth and stockings. The poor Irish la- 

 bourer, and even many of the mechanics, go to market 

 and buy second-handj or old clothes ; if they do not 

 exactly fit, which is most likely, they go to pieces 

 the first day's labour ; thus they are ever in want and 

 ever in rags. Many thousands never had a shoe on 

 their feet, nor a coat on their backs made to fit 

 them ; only think of the poor pitiable figure they 

 make dressed up in such rags, for so they may be 

 called, before coming to such a market ; think not 

 that I speak hyperbolical, or out of disrespect? No, 

 far from it. From the hospitable way I was received in 

 all parts of Ireland, I love the Irish and I love their 

 country ; what I say is a notorious fact, and so much 

 the more pity. Now what is the case in Scotland, 

 might also be the case in Ireland, were the proprie- 

 tors of mountainous lands in that country, to turn 

 their attention to the stocking their hill-pasture with 

 the very same kind of sheep that is now grazing 

 upon all the mountains of Scotland ; I recommend 

 the Scotch black-faced sheep, not with a view ta 

 turn off any of the sheep the country is already pos- 

 sessed of, but I recommend that kind of sheep, a& 

 being the only domestic animal that will thrive well 

 upon lofty mountains which are exposed to snow and 



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