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and fresh fish, or sometimes pork and meat. Tea, wife takes tea and oatcake 

 at 4 p.m. Supper with family at 9 p.m., brose, and bread with butter, or por- 

 ridge and milk or treacle. Health extremely good. 



Remarks. — In this district farms on the sea-coast are often supplied with 

 a boat, by which means the men supply themselves with fish from June to 

 end of October. Where no boat is kept, they fish on the lochs. Where 

 sheep are extensively kept, a few die during winter and spring, and these, 

 though not fit for the market, are wholesome for use, and the ploughmen and 

 work-people buy the mutton at 2d. to 3d. per lb. The shepherds are well 

 paid, getting from ,£15 to £20 per annum, and the perquisites named. 

 They are a very intelligent class, and remain long in the same situation. 



2. Parish of Eeay. Ploughmen. — G. 0. Family above ten years, 4 ; 

 below, none. Takes meals at home. Rent free. Yearly wages, £10 in 

 money, 8 bolls meal, 60 chains potatoes, 3 tons coals, and 3 pints sweet milk 

 daily. Wages of family, three at Is. per day each. No cow, pig, or poultry 

 allowed. 



Breakfast, brose at 5 a.m. before starting to work, porridge and treacle at 

 11 a.m. ; of family, porridge and milk or treacle. Dinner with family, 

 potatoes and milk, or fish and potatoes, or potatoes and pork. Tea, none. 

 Supper with family, brose or porridge and milk. Health very good. 



Remarks. — Ploughmen with large young families are unable to buy beef 

 or pork, and they frequently run into debt to the small country shopkeepers, 

 and when the yearly term comes round they remove to some other situation, 

 leaving the debt unpaid. When in need of a few shillings, they are in the 

 habit of taking meal to the shopkeepers, getting from 60 to 75 per cent, of 

 its value ; and when they buy groceries it is quite common to pay for them in 

 meal. They are a very sober class. 



3. Parish of Eeay. Female Farm-workers. — J. W. Unmarried. Takes 

 meals at home. Pent free, and fire provided. Yearly wages, £6 in money, 

 4^ bolls meal, and 2 pints milk daily. No cow, pig, or poultry allowed. 



Breakfast, brose or porridge with milk or treacle. Dinner, potatoes and 

 fish, or brose and milk. Supper, porridge and milk, or tea and bread, or bread 

 and milk. Health very good. 



Remarks. — This case is the usual diet of outworkers (female) on large arable 

 farms in this district. They are chiefly accommodated in bothies, which re- 

 quire the master's supervision. 



SUTHEELANDSHIEE. 



4. Parish of Golspie. Shepherds. — J. S. Family above ten years, 1 ; 

 below, 2. Takes meals at home. Eent free, worth £4, 5s. per annum. 

 Yearly wages, £19 in money, 6h bolls meal, 1 J boll potatoes, and quart of 

 sweet milk daily. Keeps a pig and poultry. 



Breakfast, porridge and milk ; of family, porridge and milk. Dinner with 

 family, tea, with oat bread and fish, or oat bread and crowdie, or oat bread 

 and eggs ; and on Sundays, broth made of fresh meat, or salt pork and pota- 

 toes. Supper with family, porridge and milk, or potatoes and fish (salt her- 

 ring), with milk or tea. Health very good. 



Remarks. — When milk is scarce the children get treacle and water to their 

 porridge, but it is observed that under this diet they soon lose flesh and are 

 not nearly so lively, nor do they seem to thrive. 



INVEENESS-SHIEE. 



5. Parish of Bracadale (Skye). Hind. — A. M'A. Family above ten 

 years, 3 ; below, 1. Takes meals at home. Rent free, worth £l, 10s. per 

 annum. Yearly wages, £12. Keeps cow and poultry. 



Breakfast, oatmeal porridge and milk, or potatoes and fish ; of family, 



