blic library he has erected at his own expense, given a large
collection of books, and endowed it. The room is excellently adapted,
forty-five feet by twenty-five, and twenty high, with a gallery, and
apartments for a librarian.

He has further ornamented the city with a market-house and shambles, and
been the direct means, by giving leases upon that condition, of almost
new-building the whole place. He found it a nest of mud cabins, and he
will leave it a well-built city of stone and slate. I heard it asserted
in common conversation that his Grace, in these noble undertakings, had
not expended less than thirty thousand pounds, besides what he had been
the means of doing, though not directly at his own expense.

In the evening reached Mr. Brownlow's at Lurgan, to whom I am indebted
for some valuable information. This gentleman has made very great
improvements in his domain. He has a lake at the bottom of a slight
vale, and around are three walks, at a distance from each other; the
centre one is the principal, and extends two miles. It is well conducted
for leading to the most agreeable parts of the grounds, and for
commanding views of Loch Neagh, and the distant country. There are
several buildings, a temple, green-house, etc. The most beautiful scene
is from a bench on a gently swelling hill, which rises almost on every
side from the water. The wood, the water, and the green slopes, here
unite to form a very pleasing landscape. Let me observe one thing much
to his honour; he advances his tenants money for all the lime they
choose, and takes payment in eight years with rent.

Upon inquiring concerning the emigrations, I found that in 1772 and 1773
they were at the height; that some went from this neighbourhood with
property, but not many. They were in general poor and unemployed. They
find here that when provisions are very cheap, the poor spend much of
their time in whisky-houses. All the drapers wish that oatmeal was never
under one penny a pound. Though farms are exceedingly divided, yet few
of the people raise oatmeal enough to feed themselves; all go to market
for some. The weavers earn by coarse linens one shilling a day, by fine
one shilling and fourpence, and it is the same with the spinners--the
finer the yarn, the more they earn; but in common a woman earns about
threepence. For coarse linens they do not reckon the flax hurt by
standing for seed. Their own flax is much better than the importe