a ton.

On my way to Antrim, viewed the bleach green of Mr. Thomas Sinclair; it
is the completest I have seen here. I understood that the bleaching
season lasted nine months, and that watering on the grass was quite left
off. Mr. Sinclair himself was not at home, or I should probably have
gained some intelligence that might have been useful.

Crossed the mountains by the new road to Antrim, and found them to the
summits to consist of exceeding good loam, and such as would improve into
good meadow. It is all thrown to the little adjoining farms, with very
little or any rent paid for it. They make no other use of it than
turning their cows on. Pity they do not improve; a work more profitable
than any they could undertake. All the way to Antrim lands let, at an
average, at 8s. The linen manufacture spreads over the whole country,
consequently the farms are very small, being nothing but patches for the
convenience of weavers.

From Antrim to Shanes Castle the road runs at the end of Loch Neagh,
commanding a noble view of it; of such an extent that the eye can see no
land over it. It appears like a perfect sea, and the shore is broken
sand-banks, which look so much like it, that one can hardly believe the
water to be fresh. Upon my arrival at the castle, I was most agreeably
saluted with four men hoeing a field of turnips round it, as a
preparation for grass. These were the first turnip-hoers I have seen in
Ireland, and I was more pleased than if I had seen four emperors.

The castle is beautifully situated on the lake, the windows commanding a
very noble view of it; and this has the finer effect, as the woods are
considerable, and form a fine accompaniment to this noble inland sea.

Rode from Mr. Lesly's to view the Giant's Causeway. It is certainly a
very great curiosity as an object for speculation upon the manner of its
formation; whether it owes its origin to fire, and is a species of lava,
or to crystallisation, or to whatever cause, is a point that has employed
the attention of men much more able to decide upon it than I am; and has
been so often treated, that nothing I could say could be new. When two
bits of these basalts are rubbed together quick, they emit a considerable
scent like burnt leather. The scenery of the Causeway, nor of the
adjacent mountains, is very magnificent, though the cliffs are bold; but
for a considerable distance there is a strong disposition in the rocks to
run into pentago