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Tota/ Rent. Many iiitereftlng obfervations occur in tliis 

 volume refpefting rent, which cannot here be fpecified, but 

 which will ferve to fuggeft many ideas to the the attentive 

 reader. — This column ismuch better filled up than could have 

 been expedled; — and it is polTible many of the blanks may ftill 

 be fupplied, fo as that in a fupplement, the total land rents of 

 this country, at the prefent day, may be pretty diftlnftly 



afcertained Perhaps no country in Europe has advanced 



more rapidly in thofe improvements to which the baneful 

 influence of revenue laws do not extend, than Scotland has 

 done for thirty or forty years pall. Of this, feveral very 

 ilriking proofs occur in the prefent volume refpe£ling agri- 

 culture, among which are the following : Edrom parilh, in 

 1733, the rent was 2000 1. Sterlings it now is 6943 1. 

 Sterling fier annum. 



Troquire-parilh in 1752 was rented at 950 1. Its ptefent 

 rent is 475c 1. Thefe are folid proofs of capital improve- 

 ments having taken place. 



Many interefting remarks will occur to a feniible obferv- 

 er, on comparing the laiT column in this table with the ie- 

 cond \ that is, the amount of the rent yielded to the pro- 

 prietor, compared with the numbers of the people — Thus 

 it appears, ihat in the parifh of Hownam, 365 perions yield 

 a rent of 2720 1. ; whereas, in the parifti of Delting in Shet- 

 land, 1504 perfons only afford a rent of 233 1 — In How- 

 nam, the live flock is chiefly ftieep, which amount to about 

 12000 — In Delting, the flieep are not fewer than 8coo. — 

 The milk cows amount to 700, befldes oxen and young cattle, 

 and horfes a great many j and all this is ftated to be but a 



very incomplete Ifocking Is it pofllble to bring a ftronger 



proof of the impolicy of mifmanagcment? — Were the people 

 in this negledled country properly encouraged, the rent to 

 the proprietors might in time rife, not to ten, but to a hun- 

 dred times its prefent amount * Confidered as an article 



in the great liillory of civil fociety, the account of the pa- 

 rifli of Delting is an objeft of much curiofuy. — 



• When will the proprietors learn this important and fundamental 

 mazini in political economy, that before their -vaJjaU can afford an adequate 

 •ualue Jor tbe frnperty ibcy oaupy, they miijl firjl U fut in eafy drcumjlances 



