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country, yet much might be done to better 

 ic, by draining and inclofing, with a 

 .u* fcheme of cropping; having neither 

 Coo r^uch nor too little in grafs and in fal- 

 low ; a number of fmall villages, each houfe 

 having only a large garden of two and a half 

 acres, lefs or more ; part in clover, to be la- 

 boured with the fpade, and ftripes of plant- 

 ing in many parts ; which would tend to 

 warm the ground when in grafs, and prevent 

 the winds from fhaking the corns fo much 

 as they often do when expofed. 



From Stirling to Down, the country is in 

 the ordinary way of crapping, the moft part 

 rather late this feafon. 



Blair Drummond, the foil of the late Lord 

 Kaimes, is doing great things, in order to 

 carry off, by means of water, a large mofs, 

 confifting of many hundred acres, common- 

 ly called Flanders Mofs, faid to be owing to/ 

 a Roman legion who cut down the wood 

 that was then growing there. 



It is evident, that it was once all wood ; 

 for there have been axes found deep in the 

 mofs, and in many places, bridges made of 

 wood laid acrofs, to pafs from one place tor 



another 



