i 803 * bf Roxburgh and ^eDiirk/hires. 3 T 7 



inand of dung obtained, foon recommended his fyflem of pra^^ice 

 to the imitation of thofe in his neighbourhood. ' But {o (low- 

 has been its progrefs (fays our author), that, during twenty 

 years, it fcarcely fpread as many miles; and at this moment, 

 after the experience of thirty-fix years, it only begins to be prac- 

 tifed in fome diftant parts of the county.' In a note (p. 69), 

 the introdudion, into Scotland, of tlic practice of ploughing 

 with two horfes abreaft, without a driver, feems to be attributed 

 to Mr Dawfon. * When Mr Dawfon at Frogden firll intro- 

 duced the drill-hufbandry, he had great difficulty to teach a 

 ploughman to manage two horfes without a driver, and to make 

 Itraight furrows. Mr James MacDougal, now tenant in the 

 parifh of Linton in Tweeddale,' was the firft who learned to 

 plough in this manner; and from him the praB'ice fpread through 

 this comity J and the neighhouring ones of Northumberlandy Berwick^ 

 fjjire^ Eajl- Lothian y and ^iveeddale. ' 



The early introduction, and confequent long continued prac- 

 tice of the improved hufoandry, in this diftrid, together with 

 bur perfe£l: dependence upon the author's accuracy in the invef- 

 tigation of fa<^s, in fo far as they are capable of being afcer- 

 tained, will, we hope, juilify us, in giving as large an analyfis 

 of the contents of this furvey as oiir limits will permit. 



Both counties are deftitiite of coal, excepting a detached cor- 

 ner of Roxburgh, named Liddefdale, inaccelTible for want of 

 roads : of courfe, their Situation is unfavourable to manufac- 

 tures. The chief manufacliire is one of cloth at Galafliiels, (i- 

 tuated upon that extremity of the two counties which is molt 

 acceflible to the coal of Mid-Lothian. There, manufacture 

 has fo miich increafed, that, from 722 (tones of wool iri 

 1775, ^^^^ quantity manufactured had increafed to 2916 ftones 

 in 1790. We believe the quantity has rapidly increafed fince 

 the date of the report ; fubfequent to vvhich, we underftand 

 that the manufacturers have obtained the accommodation of 

 the eltablilliment of a branch of the Lcith Bank at Gala- 

 Ihiels. But, though this diltriCt may be confidered as a- 

 gricultural, much m(^re than manufacturing, the value of 

 lands, we find, has rapidly increafed, by confequence of agri- 

 cultural improvement alone. Inftances are given (p. 16.) of 

 great advances in the purchafe price of landed eitates, fold and 

 refold at no diltant periods ; of one in particular, fold fo late as 

 1778, which fetched double the purchafe-money upon being 

 refold in 1794. 



The general dip of both counties is to the ea(t ; the waters 

 falling into the river Tweed, being difchar^jed into the Eaderri 

 fea J but in the detached corner of Roxburgh, where there 

 is coal, they run* weltward, and are carried into the Weft* 



YOi#. Xv. NO. 15. G g g enx 



