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fine meadows, which, if once drained, could 

 be water-fed, and then would be very rich^ 

 either for hay or pafture. 



He had a large ftore, or pafture farm f 

 which, he informed me, was greatly im- 

 proved by xmderftocking; fo that now it 

 maintains and fattens a vaft number of cattle 

 more than whe%he entered into poiTeflioru 

 He has now fubfet it all at a confiderably ad- 

 vanced rent. 



The Doclor was the firft I had occafion to 

 fee fince writing the National Improvements, 

 who proved from his own experience and 

 practice, upon a large pafture farm, what is 

 faid in EiTay xi. page 171, to be facl: " That 



c moft of the pafture is overftocked, efpeci- 

 u ally thefe wild grounds* I am fully con- 



: vinced, there would be much more pafture 

 cc upon any ground, more efpecially upon 



' poor ground, where this method is follow- 

 " ed by not overftocking." 



This was likewife confirmed by Captain 

 John M'Pherfon at Ballachron, who inform- 

 ed me, that when he went firft to his farm, 

 he did not make above five pounds of his 

 pafture yearly, and now, by underftocking, 



and 



