1803. Improvements carrying on at Caithnefs ifi iZoi. ^y 



FOR THE FARMER S MAGAZINE. 

 A SHORT STATEMENT OF VARIOUS MEASURES, 



CALCULATED FOR THE 



IMPROVEMENT of the COUNTY of CAITHNESS, 



CARRYING ON IN THE COURSE OF THE YEAR 1802, 



A HE Account which was publifhed about twelve months ago, 

 of the Improvements carrying on in the County of Caithness, 

 anno i8oi, having met with a very favourable reception, I am 

 thence induced to continue the fame plan for the current year 

 1802. The utility of fuch ftatements can hardly be queftioned. 

 They ferve not only as memorandums to the inhabitants of the 

 diftri£l to which they relate, inciting them to perfevere in the 

 plans therein fuggefled, but they alfo furnifli a number of ufeful 

 hints to other places ; and they have a ftrong tendency to excite a 

 general fpirit of Cultivation and Improvement, throughout the 

 whole country. On thefe grounds, I hope that the publifliing of 

 fuch Annual Reports, inftead of being confined to this remote 

 County, will fpread over the kingdom in general. 



I. The Trial for Coal zt Scrabfter, unfortunately has not hitherto 

 anfwered ; but there is (till reafon to hope, that deeper bores 

 may be fuccefsful. In the interim, fev^ral Gentlemen in the 

 county have employed a Ikilful Surveyor to fearch for other 

 Minerals on their refpettive eftates ; and he has already difco- 

 vered confiderable quantities of Marl and Limeftone ; alfo 

 Clays, valuable for making Bricks and Tiles, and for Potte- 

 ries. Some Manganefe, and Lead Ores, have alfo been 

 found. The particulars of the whole v/ill be laid before the 

 public, as foon as the furvcy is finiflied. 



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