■^2 A Revi^'w of the Agricultural Survey Aug. 



< One or two clergymen have a right to fome titl^es, but have beei| 

 in ufe, time immemorial, to accept a fmall fum in lieu of them. This 

 is a lofs to them ; but a material advantage both to the proprietors and 

 tenants of the grounds, who are thereby freed from a vexatious obflacle 

 to ufeful improvements *. 



That tithes are a vexatious obflacle to improvements, cannot 

 be queftioned by any man who has fl:udied the fubjecl. When 

 thus decidedly condemned by a gentleman of difcernment an4 

 information, one who may naturally be fuppofcd not inimical to 

 the fyftem, convidion muR flafli upon the mind of every onq 

 who has the public good at heart, and who is not difpofed to fet 

 individual advantage in oppofition to national improvement. 



The Roxburgh farmers would feem to conllitute a very re- 

 fpedable clafs : * Many of them have received a clafTjcal, an4 

 fome a liberal education.' In regard to their manner of dealing, 

 the author obferves, * they are likewife entitled to much praife 

 for the plainnefs and good faith of their dealings. Bargains are 

 rot made with lefs chicane or higgling, or fulfilled with more 

 honour, by the firft houfes in the kingdom. ' (p- 31- 33)- 



Two thirds, at leaft, of the arable diftridl:, is enclofed j a mea- 

 fure indifpenfable for appropriation to agricultural purpofes, ir^ 

 a county partly arable, partly paftoral. 



We have been large in our analyfis of the matter of this Sur- 

 vey, though we pretend not to follow the author through his 

 extenfive details ; and we have left little room for extra6ls, as 

 fpecimens of his manner. We can only obferve, that we believe 

 his flyle to be fo devoid of idiomatifms of the Scotifh language, 

 and fo much diverted of all technic terms, that no Englifhman 

 will find it difficult to comprehend his fenfe, nor will feel any 

 cxpreffion uncouth to his ear. 



We fhalj juft lay before our readers the author*s judicious re- 

 marks on the bed mode of forming roads ; a fubject, if not fo 

 immediately, at leaft moft eOcntially connectled with agricultural 

 improvement. 



* In making both turnpike and crofs roads, too little attention was 2l% 

 firft paid to avoid acclivities, and conduft them in the molt level and 

 iieareft dire(?tion. The gentlemen were inexperienced, unwilling to 

 break into cnclofures, or to injure the property of any individual ; de- 

 firous of ftudying each other's convenient^, and, above all, anxious to 



obferve 



• Since writing the above, I learn that a clergyman has actually 

 drawn, in 1796, the tithes of lamb, wool, grccfi or new pulled lint, and 

 natural hay, in kind, from one part of his parifli, and has farmed the 

 {ithqs of thcfe articles in another parto ^ 



