and I believe it is not fo oorpofive as Lime made of Stone? 
for 1 find m theHiftOry of Q^ton, that they make up their 
•Land with Lime of Oyftcr-Shellsj and which, I believe', • 
would be irnprafticable with common Lim'e. 
About thirty Years ago they made Lime of the Shells, - 
ind Manured their Land’s With it 5 hut a poor Country- 
man, that out of Lazinefs or Poverty had not provided 
to make. Lime, threw the Shells unburnt on his Land 5, . 
, his Crop proved as good as his Neighbours, and the fe- 
eondand third Crop better, and all took the hint, and ^^ 
have ufed them fo ever fince. 
Where Shells are not to he procured, .Sea Rack or Sand 
fupply the want of them, but are not fo good 3 Sea Rack 
lafts but three years, and Sand little longer. 
*Tis certain Ireland has been better Inhabited than it 
is at prefent : Mountains, that now are covered with 
Boggs, have formerly been Plowed 5 for when you dig 
five or fix Foot deep, you difeover a proper Soif for Vege- 
tables, and find it Plowed into Ridges and Furrows j This * 
is obfervable in the Wild Mountains between Ardmagh 
and Dundalk^ where the Redoubt is Built, and likev/ife * 
on the Mountains of Alt more : The fame, as I am inform- 
ed, has been obferved in the County of Londonderry 
Donegall^ a Plow was foui}d in, a very^deep Bogg.iq t^ie- 
latter, and a Fledge with Wattles handing,. under a Bogg ; 
that was five or fix Foot deep above it . I -have feen the 
Stump of a large Trep in a Bogg ten Foot deep at Cafiie^ 
Forbes 5 the Trunk had been burnt, and fome of the Cyn- 
ders and Allies lay ftih on the Stump. I have leen like- 
wife large Old Oaks grow on Land, that bad' the ’ 
Remains of Ridges and Furrows. And I am told-, Thar-- 
on the top of an higbjdoun'tajn in the North, there are. ' 
yet remaining the Streets and Footftepsof a large Town 3:- 
and in truth, there are few places, but either vifibly, or 
when the Bogg is removed, there remains marks of the ’ 
Plow ^ wjiiich fure muft prove, that the Country was well - 
' * Inhabited^ . 
