tion as the safes were sixteen butts,
containing _seventeen hundred and ninety-two gallons of water_.

[253] The Commission of 1809 on the reclamation of the bogs of Ireland
returned as improvable:

1,576,000 acres of flat bog;
1,254,000 acres of mountain top bog;
2,070,000 acres of convertible mountain bog.
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4,900,000 acres in all.

[254] "Waste Lands of Ireland: Suggestions for their immediate
reclamation, as a means of affording reproductive employment for the
able-bodied destitute. By James Fagan, Esq., M.P. for the Co. Wexford."
Dublin: James McGlashan, 1847. Halliday Pamphlets, vol. 1991.

[255] Letters to Lord John Russell, p. 9.

[256] _Ib._, p. 12.

[257] Commissariat Correspondence, p. 452. G.P. Scrope's letters to Lord
John Russell, p. 58.

[258] Ireland: Historical and Statistical. By George Lewis Smyth, vol.
2, p. 452.

[259] "In the neighbourhood of Mullinahone I witnessed the daily painful
sight of the perversion of the labour of this country to the most
profitless ends. Roads, which are now more than ever necessary to be
kept in order, are in the course of obstruction, whilst waterlogged
lands, reclaimable bottoms, and mountain slopes stand out in damning
evidence of the indolence, neglect, and folly of man."--_Letter of
Lieut.-Colonel Douglas to Sir S. Routh, dated Clonmel, 28th January,
1847. Commissariat Series, part 2._ Strong language from a Government
official.

"Some persons recommend emigration as a panacea for the distress in
Ireland--that is, in plain English, to send the bone and sinew of our
country to cultivate foreign lands, when countless acres are at their
doors untilled, undrained, and therefore unremunerative."--_The Case of
Ireland: in two letters to the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Chief
Secretary for Ireland. By the Rev. Wm. Prior Moore, A.M., Cavan._
Dublin: Wm. Curry and Co., 1847.

[260] The number of persons employed on the public works reached its
highest point in March, 1847, viz., 734,000. But this was the average
for the whole month. Before the Committee of the House of Lords on
"Colonization from Ireland," Captain Larcom, one of the Commissioners of
Public Works, said that the Commissioners expected the number employed
on those works to rise to 900,000 in June and July, having risen to
740,000 when the first stoppage took place on the 20th of March, at
which time they were increasing at the rate of 20,000 weekly.--_Answer_
to