OBSERVATIONS, fc 



/^LASGOW, Pai'wy, and the adjacent 

 utry, is perhaps more populous 

 than any other part of Scotland, for the fame 

 extent of ground ; owing to the manufactur- 

 ers being very numerous : And, for this rea- 

 fon, the price of provifions is generally high- 

 er there than in other parts of the coun- 

 try. 



To fupply that part of the country,, great- 

 quantities of corns are imported yearly from 

 England and Ireland, and the north and eaft 

 of Scotland. Some years large quantities arc 

 imported from Holland and the Baltic. 



This, in a great meafure, may be owing 

 to fo fmall a portion of the country being 

 properly improved, and too great a propor- 

 tion in grafs, which is feldom or never broke 

 up for corns ; the large quantities of wafhe 

 ground capable of being improved ; in ma- 

 places the grafs but very poor, not being 



