HIDES.

TEN lawful and merchantable hides (viz., of cows that be about or above 3 years old) makes a dicker, and 20 dickers a last.

The price of raw hides usually is (in Cork, Youghall, &c.,) 6s. or 7s. a piece, sometimes more but seldom less.

The price of a dry hide is half as much as a raw hide. There are now but few of this kind.

The price of a tanned hide is usually 10s. or 12s.

The greatest vent they have for these hides is at St. Malloe's, in France, where they sell them, viz., raw hides at 10s. a piece, dry hides at 5s. a piece, tanned hides at 15s. a piece.

They also send hides sometimes to Lysborn [Lisbon], but mostly to Civell [Seville] and the Cannaras [Canaries], where they sell them much about the price they do in France.

In the time of the wars Cork has all the traffic and transport of hides from Kinsale, Ross, Kerry, Desmound, &c., and then they transported near a hundred lasts a year, but now they transport not past 30 or 40 lasts yearly.

A stone of tallow is commonly sold for 2s. 6d., and they seldom buy any unless it be refined. The stone is 14 lb. weight, and 8 stone make a great hundred.