APPENDIX CC. Extracted from M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary, in reference to the Distribution of Property in Fee in the several Counties of England and Wales. Bedford .............Some large estates—but property notwithstanding a good deal subdivided. Berkshire .......... Property much subdivided-a third of county occupied by proprietors. Bucks.......... Cambridge Cheshire.... Cornwall...... .There are some large estates. .Estates of all sizes-some large-but many small some being worth only £20, £50, to £100 per annum-size of farms equally various. .Estates for the most part large-farms mostly small. ...Property much divided, and "vexatiously intermixed"-farms for the most part small. Cumberland ......... Property much divided—a few large estates—but by Derby Dorset. Durham Essex far the largest portion of the county in small properties, worth £10, £20, or £200 per annum. ..(Not stated). ..Property much divided. .Property in large estates- farms mostly large. .Much property belongs to the church-also some large estates-but property is notwithstanding a good deal subdivided. ...Estates of all sizes, from £5 to £20,000 per annum. Moderate sized farms, occupied by their owners. Gloucester........ ..Estates and farms of all sizes. Hampshire....... ...Estates mostly large-farms of all sizes. Hereford...... ....Property very variously divided-a few large estates -many medium, and some small. Hertford ..........................Few large estates-farms not generally large. Huntingdon .........Estates generally extensive. Kent ........ ..Property much divided - no great estates. Yeomanry of Kent a very superior class, and some, besides their own, occupy extensive hired farms. Land in Kent held by the tenure of gavelkind, descending, in the event of the father dying intestate, not to the eldest son, but to all the sons alike in equal portions. Lancaster ............Some large estates, but property a good deal subdivided. Leicester............... Property mostly in large estates. Lincoln ......... .Property very variously divided-estates from £25,000 a year to £5; but the great majority small. Middlesex ........ Property is very much divided. Monmouth............Some large estates, but property a good deal divided. Oxford Rutland Somerset.......... Stafford Suffolk Surrey Sussex......... ...But few large estates-farms generally small. ..Property variously divided-some estates very large Warwick............Some estates very large-others small. Wiltshire ............. Worcester ...Some large estates-but property much subdivided. ....Estates of all sizes-farms mostly small. ..Property in the West and North Ridings very much sub-divided. In the East Riding less subdivided than in most parts of England-many families in this riding have held their estates for centuries. APPENDIX DD. A Comparative Statement of the Exports by steam vessels, of Horned Cattle, Pigs, and Eggs, from the Ports of Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, in the first Ten Months of the years 1846 and 1847. 9th 4,984 2,686 2,681 10,351 9th 469 320 97,159 47,960 49,487 194,606 20,690 7,213 15,240 43,143 *It may be interesting to state, that the shipments of eggs to London are generally in boxes, containing about 2,500 eggs; and those to Liverpool in crates, containing from 6,000 to 8,000 eggs. THE END. WORKS ON IRELAND PUBLISHED BY HODGES AND BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY, 104, GRAFTON-STREET, DUBLIN. LONDON: LONGMAN AND CO., AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. The Annals of the Four Masters, from A. D. 1172, to the Conclusion, in 1616; consisting of the Irish Text, from the original MS. in the Royal Irish Academy, and an English Translation, with copious Explanatory Notes. By John O'Donovan, Esq., M. R. I. A. 3 vols., 4to., pp. 2498. Price £8 8s. There are few countries in which events of greater interest for the historian have taken place, or in which matters of greater curiosity for the man of general learning have left their traces, than in Ireland. Long after the other Celtic nations had adopted new forms of Roman and feudal civilization, Ireland retained the peculiar institutions and manners of the primitive European family; and, rude and imperfect as these unquestionably were, in comparison with those of the neighbouring nations, they must be admitted to have exercised a material influence on the progress of events in some of the most stirring periods of modern history. Nevertheless, it still remains a singular but just reproach to the learned in these countries, "that the history of Ireland is yet to be written." Until lately, Irish scholars, acquainted with the places of deposit, and competent to the translation of the native annals, have been careless of consulting, or unable to obtain access to, official records; while those to whom the sources of official information have heen open, either disregarded the aid, or were ignorant of the existence, of the other class of authorities. Hence, the reader of our principal Irish histories finds, on the one hand, a purely English version of events, as in Hollingshed or Cox; or, on the other, an equally partial Irish story, as in O'Sullivan or Keating. In fact, until the very recent exertions of the Irish Archæological Society, it might fairly have been said, that, since the publication of Sir Richard Cox's Hibernia Anglicana, there had been no addition made to the materials of medieval Irish history, with the single exception of the splendid collection of Irish annals translated into Latin by Dr. Charles O'Conor, and given to the world, by the munificence of the late Duke of Buckingham, under the title of Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres. Of the Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, the most voluminous and most interesting part is that of the FOUR MASTERS, of which it is now proposed to publish the continuation, with an Engfish translation and notes. 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