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or three crops, would make extraordinary 

 good paflure. And when thus digging with 

 the fpade, fome mines might accidentally be 

 found out. 



The expence of the fpade culture upon a 

 floping bank may be done for the one half of 

 digging upon level ground ; and fome parti- 

 cular parts might be planted with fruit trees 

 before they were fown into grafs. 



As there is a great number of places at the 

 foot of many hills, the fituation of which is 

 much the fame as this, lying warm and dry, the 

 foil good and flickered from moft winds, they 

 may be improved in the above manner. 



I was informed, that one of the proprie- 

 tors propofes to drain a part of the loch, 

 which will do confiderably more than pay 

 the expence. 



From Lochearnhead to Tyndrum there is 

 a large quantity of fine meadow ground ly- 

 ing on each fide of the water of Dochart, from 

 Loch-Tay to Tyndrum ; a great part of which 

 ftands in much need of being drained. The 

 river firft flraightened as much as poffible, 

 than deepened, beginning at Killearn, and 

 working as far up as Tyndrum. A great 



part 



