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and the renters are said to make a fortune. I saw 

 the ice-houses, which are entirely above-ground and 

 have no waste drain, the melted ice sinking into 

 the sand. Two thousand salmon have been taken in 

 one day in that fishery (river Spey). The largest fish 

 I heard of was caught at Aberdeen in May, 1762, 

 and weighed sixty-three pounds, Dutch weight, of 

 seventeen ounces and a half to the pound. 



Gordon Castle is five-hundred and sixty-eight 

 feet long, and eighty-four high in one part. Mr. 

 Hoy was endeavouring lately to determine, upon 

 Arrowsmith's map of Scotland, the number of 

 square miles contained in the Duke's estate in the 

 different counties, and found that in Moray, or 

 shire of Elgin, along the side of Spey, there are 

 13f ; in Banffshire, low country, 24§ ; in the same, 

 high country, 204 ; in Aberdeenshire, 107 ; in 

 Inverness-shire, Badenoch, 325 ; in Lochaber, 330 ; 

 —total, 1004^ miles, and 642,720 acres; all pro- 

 perty lands, without including those over which the 

 Duke has only the superiority. 



The plants which were shown me in the woods 

 at Gordon Castle are Satyrium repens and Pyrola 

 secunda. Mr. Brodie gave me Eriocaulons. 

 Satis superque from your most faithful 



Thomas Frankland. 



From John Walker, Esq. 



My dear Sir, Bedford Square, March 16, 1810. 



I beg to offer you my particular acknowledge- 



