A TOUR I N IREL AN D: WITH GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THAT KINGDOM: MADE IN THE YEARS 1776, 1777, and 1778. AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE END OF 1779. Nobis in arto & inglorius labor. -TACIT. BY ARTHUR YOUNG, Esq. F.R.S. at MANHEIM, and the Phyfical Society at ZURICH. A TOUR, &c. 1777. PON a fecond journey to Ireland this year, I took the opportunity of going from Dublin to Mitchelftown, by a rout through the central part of the kingdom which I had not before. fufficiently viewed. LEFT Dublin the 24th of feptember, and taking the road to Naas, I was again ftruck with the great population of the country, and the cabbins being fo much poorer in the vicinity of the capital than in the more diftant parts of the kingdom. Mr. Nevill, at Furness, had, in a very obliging manner, given directions for my being well informed of the state of that neighbourhood. He is a landlord remarkably attentive to the encouragement of his tenantry. He allows half the expence of building houfes on his eftate, which has raised seven of stone and flate, and nine good cabbins, 35 by 16, at 271 each. He gives annually to his tenants three premiums of 71. 51. and 31. for the greatest number of trees planted in proportion to the number of their acres, and pays the hearth money of all who plant. He alfo allows his tenants 40 s. an acre for all VOL. II. B the |