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good groiind;an acreot good land iti moft parts of Ireland 
is about 4' per annum, and the purchafe i4,or i;',yearSj& 
therefore three pound will purchafe an acre of good 
land; and it is very doiibtfuU with moft^wbether that 
ium will reduce a Bog: this reaioning pa fTes current, 
and IS the great obftacie and impediment of this work j 
but if theie rhiags follov/ing were done and confidered, 
I veniy believe It would be removed. 
I, All ad of Parhameat fliould be made, fuch as was for 
the building ot Lo;?i^'(/;2 s that who did not in fuch a time, 
makefome progrefs in draining their 5^»^^/, fliould part 
with them toothers that wouldj&allow a paflage to them 
thro' their lands; rather then Gentlemen would let o- 
thers come into their bounds , they would puixhafe their 
Bogs at doube the rate, as they doe patches of land witl> 
in them. - 
- idly Tis to be confidered, that quaking Bogs^ tho' land 
bcnever fo cheap; never fail to be worth the draining; 
one trench drains many acres 5 and when dry, it is gene- 
rally medow, or the bell grazing ground. 
idly Every redBog has about it a deep marfliy floughy 
' ground, which they call the bounds of the Bogs, and which 
never fails to be worth the dramirig: ond deep trench 
found the Bog, doth itj by this Cattle are kept out of the 
Bog, and all the bounds of the Bog turned into meddow.N 
as 1 have frequently feen. 
4thly As to r^i^o^j-,! remember one of 60 acres, which 
a Gentleman drained ^ the land about it was 4', 9"* 
per acrcjit was not \<^orth any thing,but rather pernicious 
to his Cattle; he re^dticed it to good grazing ground 
\votth 3' aMaere,fol'2j/i whichislefsthen 3 yearspur- 
tliafe. 
fthly Gentlemen ought to confider, that what they lay 
out this way, goeth by d'egrees, apdthey are hot feiiii- 
ble of it i it goeth among the .Teliaiit^, and' eiralbles them 
pj^y their rent the better : ' a^ V(^brk of chariiyy a-tad 
T 3 imploys 
