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STATISTICAL CORRECTIONS. 



" the top grains of thefe oats, or poffibly from their being a 

 " more tender grain, was fo totally deftroyed, that the ftraw' 

 "■ was afterwards ufed for thatch, \rithout ever being thrafhed. 

 *' The field of Polifh oats whs indeed remarkably thick and 

 *' ftrong ; the ripening of the imdermoft grains might there- 

 " fore have been in fome meafure accounted for from the 

 " Oielter afforded by the uppermoCt grains : but as a proof 

 *' above all exception, that the froft does not greatly hurt 

 *' oats while the juices in the ear are watery, there were leveral 

 " adjoining fields fown with Tweedfide oats, whofe beft ri- 

 " pened grains were no farther advanced than the undermofl 

 " grains in the field above mentioned, which all ripened very 

 " well, though equally expofed to the froft." 



In addition to the confirmation derived to this fuppofition 

 from Dr Roebuck's experiment, it may be fubjoined, that in 

 fpiing 1783, fome farmers in a muirilh parifli not far diftant, 

 who fowed feed oats of their own growth 1 782, upon their 

 good feed, as they conceived them to be, running fhort, fowed 

 fome ends of rigs with the out-dightings, which laft produ- 

 ced the beft crop*. 



In page 219. in the laft paragraph but one, and firft line, 

 for crops cut andjiacked, read crops cut andfiooked; 



In looking over the account of Linton, in the volume of re- 

 ports publiflied by Sir John Sinclair, I perceive feveral things 

 publiflied, which perhaps might as properly have been omitted : 

 thefe are of liftle confequence ; fome correftions, however, are 

 abfolutely necelTary to render the account applicable to the 

 real ftate of the parifh ; and thefe I beg you would infert, as 

 I know no more proper mode of communicating them to the 

 readers of the ftatiftical account of Scotland. 



In page r26th of the volume publilhed by Sir John Sinclair, 

 article /o/7, line ift, for, the foil of the hills is clayey, read, the foil 

 of a few of the hills is clayey ; line sth, for the remaining party 

 fead the greatefi part. 



• The fame thing happened in Aberdeenfhire that feafon, as 

 I had particular occalion ta remark ; a phenomenon that then 

 furprifcd me not a little, as I never before had had an oppor- 

 tunity of feeing frofted corn of any fort. Edit. 



