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of wheat and forty bolls of malt ferved the 

 whole family a year. But the reader will 

 perhaps be aftonifhed to learn, as I confefs I 

 was, at firft hearing it, that the family horfes, 

 and thole of vifitors, confirmed above three 

 hundred bolls of oats per annum. Nor did 

 the nobleman keep a large ftud. The per- 

 fons of the family who ate daily in the houfe 

 were more numerous than the horfes ; befides 

 which, a confiderable number of workmen 

 and poor people were daily fupplied with 

 bread and drink. 



In reflecting afterwards upon the above 

 relation, I was fully convinced of its truth ; 

 for it may eafily be proved, that all carriage 

 horfes coft their owners as much as would 

 maintain four ploughmen at leaft, according 

 to the manner in which labouring people live 

 in Scotland. Each horfe will eat a peck of 

 oats per day, befides hay. Now, I gave my 

 ploughmen two pecks of meal per week, and 

 a Scots pint of milk each day, or fix pence 

 a week. Nor was this an infufficient allow- 

 ance : For although the men had nothing to 

 live on but the meal and milk, and perhaps 

 did not eat a pound of flelh or fifh in a year, 

 yet they looked well, and were fully capable 



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