Feb. 



ilppcndix to the aho'ue Statement. 



AtvIOXG ine numerous commons in the county of Caithness, 

 tlie most exccnsive and vr.laable is knov/n ui-ider various names, 

 .35 the Hill of Forse, of Scrabster, &c. and in all it is suppos- 

 ed that this tract contains about 8ooc acres, mostly green 

 ground, and capabic ot cultivation. The necessary steps have 

 bten taken, forhavini^ this common divided by act of parlia- 

 ment ; and a plan has been formed, connected therewith, 

 which cannot fail to give satisfaction to every friend to the im-. 

 provement. Jt is founded on certain resolutions ;idopted by 

 tlie magistrate?, and other inhabitants of the town of Thurso, 

 •of wliix:h the folio vvi;ig is a copy : 



At a meetino- of the Majjistratcs and Feuers of the 

 .^own of Thurso, assembled to take into consideration the 

 •propriety of applyincr to parliament for a division of those 

 commons called the Hills of Forse, Scrabster, Aust, Giesc, 

 Ormly, Thurso, Pennyland, Holburnhead, and Brims, and all 

 ■the mosses, muirs, and other waste lands cciinccted therc- 

 ivith. 



The following Resolutions were adopted. 



I, That it appears to this meeting, in m.any respects, extreme^ 

 ly material, that such extensive commons, coataining, it is 

 supposed, about 8coo acres of land, by far the greater 

 part of which is C2pable of improvement, should be brought 

 into cultivation as s[x:edily as possible. 



il. That it is peculiarly desirable to bring forward such a plan 

 at the present time, as the division of so extensive a tract 

 may furnish the means ef occupation and subsistence to 

 numbers of persons in the Northern districts of the High- 

 lands, who may otherwise be redivced to the most poignant 

 distress, in consequence of their plans of emigration having 

 been checked by legislative provisions, and no means of sub- 

 sistence having been pointed out to them. 



in. That in the course of the division, a portion of these 

 commons will belong to the croun, as proprietor of the 

 lands of Scrabster, there is reason to hope, from the 

 great attention paid by his majesty's government to the 

 situation of the Higlilanders, that these allotments of waste 

 lands, may be appropriated by the crown for so beneficial a 

 purpose as that of forming new settlements for natives of 

 the Highlands ; and it being also probable, that government 



may 



