OBSERVATIONS, &c. 



BEING appointed by Captain Henry 

 Rudyerd chief engineer for Scotland^ 

 by order of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, 

 Mafter-general of the honourable Board of 

 Ordnance, to value fome lands belonging to 

 his Grace the Duke of Gordon at Fort Wil- 

 liam, which the Board propofed to purchafe ; 

 in my journey, I made a few curfory obfer* 

 vations on the foil and nature of the country, 

 with a view to the improvements that might 

 be made upon it ; and which I here prefent 

 the reader, as being of opinion, that they 

 may tend to the advancement of that mofl 

 ufeful of all arts, agriculture. Though, I 

 muft own them to be neither fo full nor fo ac- 

 curate as I could have wifhed, having no bet- 

 ter opportunity of examining mofl of the 

 grounds, than by viewing them as I pafled 

 along the road. 



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