C:62 Hints fcr the Improveme/it of the Highlands, Aug. 



tianfport of the emigrants, and be anxious that the fame care is 

 taken of them in the paffage, as is done with the African ne- 

 groes ; but real remedial and preventive means to keep the people 

 at home, by furnifliing them with houfes and employment, will 

 hardly gain their countenance. The number of fuch people, 

 however, I hope, is not great ; and I indulge the pleafant re- 

 ileiStion, that fome fcheme or other will be devifed for meliorat- 

 ing the condition of the Highlanders, and providing for thofe 

 who are removed from tlieir native homes by an introdu£lion of 

 the new huiLandry into the Highland diftridls. I am, 

 Yours, &c. 



A Rural Economist. 



[The following paper was communicated by Sir John Sinclair 

 Baronet, to whom this Work has repeatedly been under 

 great obligations. We are, however, extremely forry that, 

 on this occafion, our limits reflrain us from prefenting more 

 than the fubftance of fuch an im.portant communication.] 



FOR THE farmer's MAGAZINE. 



Zuhflance of a Paper fubmltted to the Co7ifidevaiion ef the SeleB Com- 

 viitteey to ijohom the Survey and Report of the CoaJIs and Central 

 Highlands of Scotland^ made by the command cf the Corjinujfion' 

 ers of His Majejlys Treafuryy has been referred. 



The fubje£t that has been referred to the Committee, is 

 unquedionably one of the mofl important that could be fub- 

 mitted to the confuleration of any body of men. About two 

 hundred years have now elapfed, fince the Britifh Government 

 has almoil exclufively directed its attention to the cultivation 

 of its foreign poffeiTions, leaving the improvement of its ter- 

 ritory at home to the exertions of individuals. The adop- 

 tion of fuch a plan might be juftified, if every acre in the unit- 

 ed kingdom were cultivated to the bed advantage ; but fuiely, 

 until that is the cafe, we (hould not be radi in wailing abroad, 

 what can be employed at home to much more advantage. 



It is unneceiTary, at this time, to dwell on the fatal confe- 

 quences which this country has experienced from Foreign Colo- 

 nization, carried to the extent it nvas. It appears that our A- 

 merican Colonies alone coft us above 40 millions, in addition 

 to all the expcnccs of the various wars coune^led with thofe 



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