i8oj. Letter from Germany in the year i"}^"^. ^01 



at home at the weaver trade. Pray let mc hear from you as 

 oft as you pleafe, with all the fliire of Ayr news, and how- 

 affairs go on in Galloway ; for I correfpond with nobody in 

 that country. The knight of Lochnaw and his men behaved 

 very gallantly ; — poor Sandy Maxwell was killed on the fpot. 



I do not know how G behaved, but he came off fcart 



free ; and young French was in the heat of the fire, and was 

 not hurt. My kind fervice to Mrs A , and all your fa- 

 mily ; to Mr S , if you happen to fee him ; and to ho- 



neft A , and all friends at Lowdon. Their Lord is made 



one of the King's aid-de-camps fince the battle. On that day 

 he a£led as one of my Lord Stair's. 



As I am writing to a farmer, which I had almoft forgot, 

 I muft not end my letter without faying fomething about 

 the manner of labouring here. All I have feen of Germany- 

 is an exceeding line country ; the mountains are covered 

 with wood, — the plains with all forts of excellent grain and 

 fruit-trees. The grain they deal moft in is rye and wheat, 

 which they are now cutting down j but their oats and barley 

 are very late. They have likewifc a great deal of rape-feed 

 and Indian corn, in great perfection. The foil is a light 

 fand, and confequently eafily laboured. Their plough is a 

 very light thing with one (lilt, and two little wheels which 

 fupport the end of the beam. It is generally drawn by one 

 ox ; fome ufe two, who draw by the horns, which is cer- 

 tainly a far better way than ours. One man holds and drives 

 the plough, and I have counted twenty of them in one field» 

 By lliifting the mould-board, they go up and down the fame 

 fide. 



We have deftroyed as much corn this Summer, as would 

 raife a famine with you, were the like to happen. We fome- 

 times camped in fields of corn as long as between the 

 and Edinburgh, that would have covered the 

 higheft man in the army ; — forae they cut down to the horfes, 

 and the reft they trod under foot, which gave me a great deal 

 of pain, not being ufed to that way. For thefe two weeks 

 palt, we have had a good deal of rain, and the weather is 

 pretty cool. 



When you are fo good as to write to me, put your letter un- 

 der cover to Andrew Mitchell, Efq. at the Marquis Tweedale's 

 office} Whitehall, London. — I am, moft fincercly, 



Your?, Sec. 



h \ 4 TQ 



