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of barley, commonly called bear or big. 
Their oatmeal has a bitter burnt taste. 
Their potatoes are tolerably good. 
Very little time is, in general, de¬ 
voted to gathering of manure. Some¬ 
times they make use of sea-weed either 
by itself or made into small dunghills, 
with cow dung or earth. Notwithstand¬ 
ing that they have abundance of lime¬ 
stone and peats, they seldom use lime as 
a manure, owing to which neglect, and 
the want of fallowing, they have fre¬ 
quently a plentiful crop of weeds. 
There is a very great stop to agricul¬ 
tural improvements still to be considered. 
Most of the tenants hold their farms from 
year to year by a verbal bargain; and 
the stipulations of the very few written 
leases that are granted, consist chiefly in 
binding the tenant assiduously to attend 
his landlord's fishing as long as he pos¬ 
sesses his farm. Now, any failure in this 
is a forfeiture of the agreement. But 
