hedges, when fully grown, would in fomtf 

 meafure alter the climate, by affording fuch 

 bield or flicker, as would make the grafs 

 grounds confiderably warmer than they are 

 atprefent. Stripes of planting would be ve- 

 ry neceffary for accomplifhing this end. 



I have no doubt, if once begun and plan- 

 ned out in regular villages, (fee page 393.) 

 a great part of the muirs might be improved 

 in a few years. There is no part in Scotland 

 which I ever faw, more adapted for villages 

 than this, having both lime and peat not far 

 diftant ; and the peat or turf would burn the 

 lime without coaL 



There is another method that would tend 

 much to improve thefe muirs, firft,by inclofing 

 them in large inclofures, the expence of which 

 may be feen in page 252. After this, they 

 may be drained with open or clofe drains. 

 And it may be obferved, that no part of im- 

 provement will pay fo well as draining, even 

 upon the poof eft ground. After it was drain- 

 ed, the ground might be limed upon the 

 fwaird, which would deftroy the heath, bring 

 up good pafture grafs, and raife the value of 

 lands to fix times what it is at prcfent. 



I- mud here again exprefs my iurprife, tl^t 



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