1803 • Review 0/ Peebles Suri'cy, 2\g 



felyes of applying to the Lcgiflature to enforce tliia fubftltutlon by 

 compulfion. We would rather recommend ic U- them, U) get over 

 their prejudice agalnil the ufe of hoifes flclh as food: No delcrlption 

 of palluring animals will take on tleih more fpccdily than the horle ; 

 and, if his fielli (liould become palatable, he would be, in this refpedt 

 alio, much more ccunomlcally kept than Lhe ox. We have heard^f 

 dogs having been lerved up at table, m this country, after t!ie manner 

 of Otaheite : It would be much more patriotic to introduce the Tar- 

 tar fafhion, of eating old horfes well fattened : Indeed alter overcom- 

 ing the repugnance arifmg from the hideous and difgulllng appearance 

 of that undiltingnifhingly voracious and fcrophulouslooking animal, 

 the fow, repugnance to the flefh of horfes would appear a mere pre- 

 judice of education — h'ke the prejudice againit potatoes entertaaied, 

 according to Count Rumford, by the Bavarians, which obliged hiqi 

 to introduce them by Health, as an article of food, into the pours- 

 houfe at Munich.' 



A correct map of the county 13 given, wliich is an appendage 

 that ought always to accompany fuch publications. The work, 

 is dedicated to Sir James Montgomery, Bart, late Lord Chief Ba- 

 ron of the Exchequer, who, in more refpe6ls than one, might 

 juftly beconfidered as the father of the county. Indeed Tweedale 

 has long pollelied a race of proprietors attentive to agricultaral 

 matters, and zealoully adive to promote the profperity of its in- 

 habitants. 



Two valuable papers are added by way of appendix. I. An 

 account of Whim, the feat of Sir James Montgomery, Bart, with 

 lome obfervations upon the culture of flow mofs, and of ploughable 

 mofs, communicated b;v him. 2. An ejjliy on the difeafes of Jljeepy 

 which appears to be of great merit. We iliall fet afide both as 

 a corps de rh/erve, that may be brought into the field v.'hen cir- 

 cumftances require fuch affiilance. 



Thus have we offered an imperfect and delultory review of a 

 performance, which, with flrict propriety, may be ranked among 

 the lirfl clafs of the county furveys. Oar opinions, almcil in 

 every point, are in unifo.i with thofe entertained by the worthy au- 

 thor ; and it is with pleafure we add, that principles, fuch as guided 

 him, are fpreading more and more everyday. On a former occafion, 

 vol. I. p. 284. we noticed * that it was a circumflance extremelj' 

 creditable to the Scottifti clergy, that fuch of their number as 

 were appointed, under the authority of the Agricultural Hoard, 

 to afTifl in the great work of furveying the kingdom, had per- 

 formed their refpeclive parts aiTigned them with fmgular inge- 

 nuity and judgment ; while in England, where the profefTion is 

 ten times more numerous, only one folitary individual, to the 

 beil of our r^olleclion, was feledied from the clerical order for 

 handling the labouring oar on that important occaflon.' The 

 ideas which we then entertained concerning the talents of the 



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