d scarce drive through
the streets, they were so amazingly thronged: on the other days the
number is very great. I should suppose it must resemble a Dutch town,
for there are many canals in the streets, with quays before the houses.
The best built part is Morrison's Island, which promises well; the old
part of the town is very close and dirty. As to its commerce, the
following particulars I owe to Robert Gordon, Esq., the surveyor-general:

_Average of Nineteen Years' Export, ending March_ 24, 1773.

Hides, at 1 pounds each 64,000 pounds
Bay and woollen yarn 294,000
Butter, at 30s. per cwt. from 56s. to 180,000
72s.
Beef, at 20s. a barrel 291,970
Camlets, serges, etc. 40,000
Candles 34,220
Soap 20,000
Tallow 20,000
Herrings, 18 to 35,000l. all their 21,000
own
Glue 20 to 25,000 22,000
Pork 64,000
Wool to England 14,000
Small exports, Gottenburg herrings, 35,000
horns, hoofs, etc., feather-beds,
palliasses, feathers, etc.
1,100,190

Average prices of the nineteen years on the custom books. All exports on
those books are rated at the value of the reign of Charles II.; but the
imports have always 10 per cent. on the sworn price added to them.
Seventy to eighty sail of ships belong to Cork. Average of ships that
entered that port in those nineteen years, eight hundred and seventy-two
per annum. The number of people at Cork mustered by the clergy by
hearth-money, and by the number of houses, payments to minister, average
of the three, sixty-seven thousand souls, if taken before the 1st of
September, after that twenty thousand increased. There are seven hundred
coopers in the town. Barrels all of oak or beech, all from America: the
latter for herrings, now from Gottenburg and Norway. The excise of Cork
now no more than in Charles the Second's reign. Ridiculous!

Cork old duties, in 1751, 62,000 pounds
produced
Now the same 140,000

Bullocks, 16,000 head, 32,000 barrels; 41,000 hogs, 20,000 barrels.
Butter, 22,000 firkins of half a hundredweight each, both increase this
year, the whole being

240,000 firkins of butter,
120,000 barrels of beef.

Export of woollen y