lias fo many years free of rent, if I rightly re-" 

 member, it is eight years free, and fo much 

 an acre every year after for rent. There is 

 a number of families fettled there, who go un- 

 der the name of the mofs lairds. 



There is rather too much of the inclofures 

 at Blair Drummond in grafs, which is not 

 fo much for the intereft of the proprietor, as 

 Lord Kaimes fays in his Gentleman Farmer, 

 p. 148. 



The mofs that is caft afliore by the tides 

 on the fides of the river Forth, would anfwer 

 very well to be mixt with dung, as it is im- 

 pregnated with fait water, or might be put 

 upon pafture ground by itfelf. 



From Down to Callender has the appear- 

 ance of a light dry foil, very much adapted 

 for grafs ; which would produce very weigh- 

 ty crops of hay when under proper manage- 

 ment, if inclofed, as formerly propofed, with 

 a funk fence, and thorns upon the top, which 

 would make a moft beautiful country. The 

 thorns would anfwer very well upon this 

 foil. 



I was much furprifed to fee fuch poor 

 crops upon fuch good land in appearance, as 

 the feafon was favourable for this kind of 



F f foil. 



