4 HORSES. 



modes of culture, the value of land in Scotland 

 has in my own time been tripled ; and I have 

 no doubt that by adopting them the value of 

 Mr Wordsworth's property would be increased 

 in the same ratio ; but I was unable by this 

 argument or by any other to persuade him 

 to change his system of tenancy. 



Here and throughout the States the agri- 

 cultural horses are light and blood-like, and I 

 greatly admired the excellent control which 

 they and the agricultural oxen are under regu- 

 lating all their motions with great alacrity by 

 the word of command ; but the horses appear 

 too slender, and a cross with the Suffolk, 

 Clydesdale, or heavy Lincolns, would in my 

 opinion make a great improvement. 



The plough here is similar to that general- 

 ly used in Scotland, but much lighter and al- 

 so shorter both in the beam and in the stilts 

 or handles, a difference rendered necessary for 

 avoiding the stumps standing in the fields 

 the remains of the ancient forests of which 

 few of the uplands are entirely cleared ; these 

 stumps are three or four feet high, and being 



