COUNTIES OF KOSS AND CE0M.\JITY. 



97 



1674, 



1815, 



1850, 



1855-6, 



1857-8, 



1862-3, 



1866-7, 



1870-1, 



1875-6, 



1876-7, 



Boss and Cromarty. 

 L.7683 

 121,557 

 160,565 

 170,395 

 179,745 

 194,475 

 210,991 

 237,003 

 260,166 

 262,817 



Eoss alone. 

 L.6,609 



153,165 

 162.565 



171,800 

 186,321 

 202,320 

 227,699 

 250,305 

 252,908 



Increase over both counties since 1674, 

 Do since 1850, 



Increase in Eoss alone since 1674, 

 Do. since 1850, 



L.255,134 



102,252 



246,299 



99,743 



Such an immense increase as L.102,252 during the short period 

 of twenty-five years must be regarded as very satisfactory indeed, 

 and as reflecting the highest credit on the landed proprietors 

 and tenant-farmers of both counties. In fact, as vre shall 

 endeavour to show presently, the counties of Eoss and Cromarty 

 have put almost all the other counties in Scotland into the shade 

 with respect to increase of valuation. The following table 

 shows the position Eoss and Cromarty occupy, in comparison 

 with the fifteen Scotch counties (excluding Lanark and Edin- 

 burgh, the agricultural value of which is greatly intermixed with 

 other interests) that exceeded their total valuation inl815 : — 



It will tluis be seen, that wliile in 1815 Eoss and Cromartv 

 were behind all these fifteen counties in valuation, they liave 

 now surpassed AVigtown by more tlian L.37,000. And what is a 

 mucli greater feat, they liave outstripped the whole of tlie iifteen 

 excepting Aberdeen and Ayr, in the ratio at w^hicli the valuation 

 lias increased during the past sixty years. During that period 



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