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| | Lewis: Co. Leitrim |
 | | There are 18 constabulary police stations, having a force of a stipendiary magistrate, a sub-inspector, 5 chief officers, 21 constables, 105 men and 6 horses, the expense of whose maintainance is defrayed by Grand Jury presentments and by Government in equal proportions. |
 | | The whole is exceedingly retentive of water, its hard gravelly substance being based on clay-slate of various colours, beneath with occurs, in many places, a yellow, brown, or flisth stiff argillaceous substratum, while in some parts this sort of raw unproductive earth most commonly of a reddish coulour, is found immediately beneath the surface. |
 | | Under the south and west brow of Slieve an Irin is a stratum of coal, and large and deep beds of pipe clay and yellow ochre are found in the channels of several of the mountain streams, particularly about Aughacashel, intermingled with flinty gravel of silicious sand. |
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