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mcnts can be made, by means of water upon 

 the hills, than in the low country, the fides 

 of many rivers excepted. 



I was very forry to be informed, that in 

 this part of the country, and Argylefliire, 

 they were depopulating the farms much, by 

 throwing the moft of them into large fheep 

 walks. The fheep are very good in their 

 place, but the belt improvements may be o- 

 verdone. 



It is certainly very wrong in the proprie- 

 tors to depopulate the country, they ought 

 rather to make it their fludy to devife fuch 

 fchemes as might make each of their tenants 

 live more comfortably, and at the fame time 

 increafe their number. This they might da 

 by eredling a great number of fmall villages, 

 in every corner of the country moft adapted 

 for them ; either the proprietors building the 

 houfes themfelves, or feuing out two and a 

 half acres for each houfe, to be laboured only 

 with the fpade, which would encourage ma- 

 nufacturers to fettle there. The manufactur- 

 ers would encourage agriculture, by taking 

 the produce from the farmer, and the farmer 

 would encourage manufacturers to fettle 



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