The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 7: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published; ... and a Life of the Author (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 7: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published; With Notes, and a Life of the Author

It was the practice of Irish farmers to wear out their ground with ploughing, neither manuring nor letting it lie fallow, and when their leases were near expired, they ploughed even the meadows, and made fuch havock, that the landlords by their zeal to prevent it were betrayed into this pernicious measure.

A sea port in Devonshire, at that time the principal market in England for Irish wool.

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