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and keeping a herd to keep his neighbours 

 cattle off, he makes a hundred a year. 



It is a very great fatisfadion to have what 

 is written, proved from the pradlice of many 

 eminent fanners. And, indeed, there is fcarcc 

 one article of any confequeuce in the whole 

 book, but what has been proved by the ex- 

 perience of fome practical farmer. 



Here (I muft own) I have not feen in any 

 part of Scotland the methods recommended 

 by me for banking in rivers reduced to prac- 

 tice, but in Badenoch on the river Spey. 

 Firft, by Mr M'Lean at Pitmain upon Mr 

 M'Pherfon of Clunie's eftate, who has banked 

 a large tract of ground in a more fubftantial 

 manner than the way I recommended, it be- 

 ing all built with ftones at the back, in the 

 form of a, funk fence, two feet below the 

 ground, to prevent the moles from making 

 holes in it, and more than four feet above 

 ground, with a large bank of earth clofe to 

 the ftones, floping towards the water, and 

 covered with a green fwaird. This fence is 

 a little way diftant from the water which is 

 very proper. 



If this manner of embanking be not toa 



expenfive, 



