Hides are sold generally, at from 40s. to 47s. 6d. per cwt.
Tallow, at from 45s. to 60s.

Wool, at from 14d. to 20d. per

The quantities not ascertainable.

lb.

Goats.

"Densior hinc soboles, hinc largi copia lactis."

There are few herds in the mountains, but individually they are found among the habitations of the lowland poor.

You frequently see the milch goat tied by the neck, whilst she browses on the quickset of a neighbour; her owner has no hedge, for he has no land! The milk is divided for five weeks with the kid; the kid is sold as venison, and the goat remains, to the little inmates, the best succour under heaven. That the poor man and his goat should thus be associated nuisances to the cultivation of their native land

" "Tis true-'tis pity;
"And pity it is, 'tis true."

Pigs.

I can discover nothing peculiar in this race; the Chinese, the Dutch, the Hampshire, the Berkshire, are each to be seen; and among the rest, the red and the white breeds, supposed to be natives.

Rabbits.

There are two very considerable warrens on the east side of the Bann, the least of which contains, probably, 500 acres; the other about 2000 acres.

A very great warren lays in Magilligan; it occupies not less than 1500 acres, and is divided into the near, and the far end; a distinction of the situation in respect of Newtown and its neighbourhood. The value of this warren, taken by the acre, varies exceedingly: in

some places, an acre will contain rabbits worth £10; in other places, go acres will not contain the value of £1. The swelling grounds are most valuable, because the rabbit will not burrow in low flats.

The flesh of these rabbits is either consumed in the farmer's household, or, in still greater proportion, is carried through the neighbouring towns and country. The carrier hangs the rabbits over his horse's back; he sells them from 6d. to 1s. per couple, skinning or casing them at the same time. For the skins he is accountable to the proprietor, of the warren.

It is well known, that warren rabbits are generally inferior to those of demesnes as to flesh, but they are superior as to fur. Those in Magilligan, which are fed among the bent and moss, have the longest fur.

From the best information I learn, that the number of rabbit-skins varies from 1500 to 3000, and that the annual yield is about 2000. These are purchased at two auctions, usually held in Magilligan: persons commissioned for the hatters of Dublin, and sometimes of England, are the bidders. The price fluctuates from 8s. to 12s., and of late still higher, per dozen, and in some extraordinary years, may be a little above or below. Those of the far end are first auctioned, and their price generally regulates that of the near end. There is a difference in the time of beginning to take the rabbits. The far end commences 1st of November (or new stile) the near end the 12th of November (or old stile.) The prices of the other warrens are regulated by these sales.

Among the quadrupeds which formerly existed, but are now extinct, is the native stag or red deer. The moose-deer is only claimable to these regions by the discovery of his horns in our bogs; the wolf is happily no more; and even the fox is gradually withdrawing from the haunts of man and his vigilant satellite the dog. Neither have we moles, serpents, nor toads; but the frog, who not one hundred years ago was (with the magpie) imported in a luckless hour, has, like his fellow voyager, multiplied exceedingly to our