t-load of turf, 20 tons, Widgeon, 10d. ditto.
45s.
Salmon, three-halfpence. Hares, 1s. each, commonly sold all
year.
Trout, 2d., very fine, per lb. Woodcocks, 20d. to 2s. 2d. a brace.
Eels, 2d. a pound. Oysters, 4d. to 1s. a 100.
Rabbits, 8d. a couple. Lobsters, 1s. to 1s. 6d., if good.

Land sells at twenty years' purchase. Rents were at the highest in 1765;
fell since, but in four years have fallen 8s. to 10s. an acre about
Limerick. They are at a stand at present, owing to the high price of
provisions from pasture. The number of people in Limerick is computed at
thirty-two thousand; it is exceedingly populous for the size, the chief
street quite crowded; many sedan chairs in town, and some hackney
chaises. Assemblies the year round, in a new assembly-house built for
the purpose, and plays and concerts common.

Upon the whole, Limerick must be a very gay place, but when the usual
number of troops are in town much more so. To show the general expenses
of living, I was told of a person's keeping a carriage, four horses,
three men, three maids, a good table, a wife, three children, and a
nurse, and all for 500 pounds a year:

l. s. d. l. s. d.
A footman 4 4 0 to 6 6 0
A professed 6 6 0
woman-cook
A house-maid 3 0 0
A kitchen-maid 2 0 0
A butler 10 0 0 to 12 0 0

A barrel of beef or pork, 200lb. weight. Vessels of 400 tons can come up
with spring tides, which rise fourteen feet.

September 9. To Castle Oliver; various country, not so rich to
appearance as the Caucasus, being fed bare; much hilly sheep walk, and
for a considerable way a full third of it potatoes and corn: no sign of
depopulation. Just before I got to the hills a field of ragwort
(_senesio jacoboea_) buried the cows. The first hill of Castle Oliver
interesting. After rising a mountain so high that no one could think of
any house, you come in view of a vale, quite filled with fine woods,
fields margined with trees, and hedge plantations climbing up the
mountains. Having engaged myself to Mr. Oliver, to return from Killarney
by his house, as he was confined to Limerick by the assizes, I shall omit
saying anything of it at present.

S