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for Infields, Outfields, Haughs and Laighs. By a small Society 

 of Farmers in Buchan. Edinburgh, 1735. 



A General Description of the East Coast of Scotland, from 

 Edinburgh to Cullen. By Francis Douglas. 1827. 



Present State of Husbandry in Scotland, extracted from Reports 

 made to the Commissioners of Annexed Estates (by Mr. Andrew 

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Memoirs of the Life and Works of the late Right Honourable 

 Sir John Sinclair, Bart. By his Son, the Rev. John Sinclair, 

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Buchan. By Rev. J. B. Pratt, LL.D., Cruden. 



An Echo of the Olden Time, from the North ofScotland. By 

 Rev. Walter Gregor, M.A. 



2. EAKLY ABEKDEENSHIRE ROADS AND POST TOWNS. 



In June, 1739, a meeting of the Commissioners of Supply waa 

 held, and the minute bears inter alia : 



" As to the Kintoir road recommend to the town of Aberdeen 

 the management thereof, so far as their freedorne goes ; and 

 recommend to Dr. Gordon ; Auchmull ; Stonywood, younger ; 

 Invercauld, and the factors of Caskieben and Craig, or any two 

 of them to take upon them the management and direction of the 

 Kintoir road from the place where the freedome of Aberdeen 

 ends, untill it comes to the head of the Hill of Tyrebagger ; and 

 recommend to the Earle of Kintoir's factor and the Magistrates 

 of Kintoir to take the management and direction of the said road 

 from the head of the Hill of Tyrebagger to the town of Inverury ; 

 and recommends to the Magistrates of Inverury to carry on said 

 road through the whole of their freedome ; and recommends to 

 the laird of Pittodery ; John Tnnes of Tillyfour, and John Leslie 

 of Afforsk, to carry on said road from Inverury to the west corner 

 of the park dykes of Pittodery ; and recommends to Overhall ; 

 Westhall ; Premnay ; Dunnydeer ; and the laird of Law, or any 

 two of them to carry 011 said road up through the Garioch. And 

 as to the branch of the Inverury road which leads to Strathbogie, 

 the Commissioners recommend to Inveramsay ; Coldwalls ; Three- 

 field ; Gight ; Shellagreen, and Rothney, or any two of them to 

 take upon them the management and direction of the said branch 

 from Inverury to Strathbogie, and particularly orders a cassey to 

 be made at Leggatsden ; and appoints Inveramsay to deburse the 

 charges thereof, and to be repay ed at the next generall meeting." 



In constructing roads, what they did was simply to level out 

 the site where the ground was hard and firm : and lay a cause- 

 way of rough stones in the low-lying and soft parts that could 

 not otherwise be got over. The Legatsden Causeway 



A lang mile frae Harlaw, 



