To 



THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 

 THE LORD PANMURE, 



&c. &c. &c. 



MY DEAR LORD, 



FROM the interest you constantly take in 

 everything connected with agriculture, and the benefit 

 which, in this part of Scotland, the practice of it has de 

 rived from your example and munificence, there is no one 

 to whom a work having reference to that subject, may 

 more appropriately be inscribed. 



With this conviction, and with a lively remem 

 brance of friendship early evinced, always unvaried, and 

 of which I continue to receive very gratifying proofs, I 

 have the greatest pleasure in respectfully dedicating to 

 your Lordship, the following relation of my visit to the 

 United States and Upper Canada. 



Forty years have revolved since I undertook a pe 

 destrian task one of the first in which I was engaged 

 on a match with the late Captain Fletcher of Balinshoe, 

 in Forfarshire, for the large stake of 5000 guineas a 





