erable. There are two sugar-houses, and many
salt-houses. The salt is boiled over lime-kilns.

There is a fishery upon the coast of Waterford, for a great variety of
fish, herrings particularly, in the mouth of Waterford Harbour, and two
years ago in such quantities there, that the tides left the ditches full
of them. There are some premium boats both here and at Dungarvan, but
the quantity of herrings barrelled is not considerable.

The butter trade of Waterford has increased greatly for seven years past;
it comes from Waterford principally, but much from Carlow; for it comes
from twenty miles beyond Carlow, for sixpence per hundred. From the 1st
of January, 1774, to the 1st of January, 1775, there were exported
fifty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-six casks of butter, each, on
an average, one hundredweight, at the mean price of 50s. Revenue of
Waterford, 1751, 17,000 pounds; 1776, 52,000 pounds. The slaughter trade
has increased, but not so much as the butter. Price of butter now at
Waterford, 58s.; twenty years' average, 42s. Beef now to 25s.; average,
twenty years, 10s. to 18s. Pork, now 30s.; average, twenty years, 16s.
to 22s. Eighty sail of ships now belonging to the port, twenty years ago
not thirty. They pay to the captains of ship of two hundred tons 5
pounds a month; the mate 3 pounds 10s. Ten men at 40s., five years ago
only 27s. Building ships, 10 pounds a ton. Wear and tear of such a
ship, 20 pounds a month. Ship provisions, 20s. a month.

The new church in this city is a very beautiful one; the body of it is in
the same style exactly as that of Belfast, already described: the total
length one hundred and seventy feet, the breadth fifty-eight. The length
of the body of the church ninety-two, the height forty; breadth between
the pillars, twenty-six. The aisle (which I do not remember at Belfast)
is fifty-eight by forty-five. A room on one side the steeple, space for
the bishop's court, twenty-four by eighteen; on the other side, a room of
the same size for the vestry; and twenty-eight feet square left for a
steeple when their funds will permit. The whole is light and beautiful.
It was built by subscription, and there is a fine organ bespoke at
London. But the finest object in this city is the quay, which is
unrivalled by any I have seen. It is an English mile long; the buildings
on it are only common houses, but the river is near a mile over, flows up
to the town in one noble r