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... persons depending exclusively on agriculture ; num- ber of cultivators ; number to 500 acres of arable land ; comparison with the number in Ireland ; contrast presented by the agricultural aspects of Belgium and Ireland - The perfection ...
... persons depending exclusively on agriculture ; num- ber of cultivators ; number to 500 acres of arable land ; comparison with the number in Ireland ; contrast presented by the agricultural aspects of Belgium and Ireland - The perfection ...
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... persons attend it . Of course the gentry send in their prize animals , and the agricul- tural implement makers , English and Irish , exhibit their choicest and most improved specimens . All this is very useful , and re- flects much ...
... persons attend it . Of course the gentry send in their prize animals , and the agricul- tural implement makers , English and Irish , exhibit their choicest and most improved specimens . All this is very useful , and re- flects much ...
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... persons , men , women , and children - are engaged in the cotton manufacture alone . There are besides extensive manu- factures of silks , velvets , hardware , and other products . The same remarks , as regards fuel , apply more or less ...
... persons , men , women , and children - are engaged in the cotton manufacture alone . There are besides extensive manu- factures of silks , velvets , hardware , and other products . The same remarks , as regards fuel , apply more or less ...
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... persons to the Netherlands to observe and learn the entire treatment of flax and the preparation of the thread , and to engage the best workmen . Five hundred families skilled in the linen manufacture were brought over from Brabant ...
... persons to the Netherlands to observe and learn the entire treatment of flax and the preparation of the thread , and to engage the best workmen . Five hundred families skilled in the linen manufacture were brought over from Brabant ...
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... persons ; whilst in Ireland there are only 47 such factories , 26,784 spindles , 215 power- looms , and 10,555 persons employed . But Ireland has made most satisfactory progress in the woollen manufacture in the last six or seven years ...
... persons ; whilst in Ireland there are only 47 such factories , 26,784 spindles , 215 power- looms , and 10,555 persons employed . But Ireland has made most satisfactory progress in the woollen manufacture in the last six or seven years ...
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acres of arable agricultural amount arable land average Belgium Britain British capital Catholics cattle cent centuries CHAPTER Church clergy coal Commissioners common condition confiscation Connaught considerable Cork cottiers Court crops Crown 8vo cultivators districts districts of England Dublin Edition effect Elizabeth emigration employed England and Wales English estates farmers France Government holdings House Ibid improvements increase industry instances interest Ireland Irish Statutes justice king king's labour landlord leases Leland live Lord Deputy manufactures manure ment nation oath of supremacy oppression Ormond Papist Parliament Parliament of England penal laws plantation plantation of Ulster poor population portion possession potato production profit proportion proprietors Protestant rebellion reign religion rent result savings Scotland seen small farms soil statute acres Statutes of Kilkenny tenants tenure tillage tion tithe tons Total tracts trade Ulster United Kingdom wages whole Woodcuts woollen
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