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in moft places in Scotland, which produces 

 early crops of every thing both in the gar- 

 den and field. The potatoes at Fort William 

 were the beft, and higheft flavoured, I have 

 eat any where|this feafon, the mutton alfo was 

 uncommonly good. 



From thefe confiderations, the feuing out 

 a great part of the muirs might turn to a con- 

 fiderable annual revenue. The inclofing with 

 a ditch fix feet wide, three deep, and three 

 feet built above the furface, with a row of 

 thorns planted on the top, two feet back, 

 could be done at one Ihilling each fix yards. 

 At this rate, an hundred acres would coft 

 L.2J ; if a fquare field 400 acres, L.$o : 2 ; 

 562, L.6o, and fo on in proportion. See 

 National Improvements, p. 252. 



Wherever there is fo clofe a fwaird of 

 heath and grafs, as in the muirs in Loch- 

 aber, the following method makes one of the 

 beft offences at the leaft expence. Raife the 

 fods nine inches or a foot fquare, with thefc 

 build a dyke on the furface of the ground, 

 with the heath or grafs fide outmoft four 

 feet high, caft a ditch in the infide, fix feet 

 wide, three deep, about five or fix feet from 



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