46 HORSES. 



modes of culture, the value of land in Scotland 

 has in my own time been tripled ; and I have 

 no doubt that by adopting them the value of 

 Mr Wordsworth s property would be increased 

 in the same ratio ; but I was unable by this 

 argument or by any other to persuade him 

 to change his system of tenancy. 



Here and throughout the States the agri 

 cultural horses are light and blood-like, and I 

 greatly admired the excellent control which 

 they and the agricultural oxen are under regu 

 lating all their motions with great alacrity by 

 the word of command ; but the horses appear 

 too slender, and a cross with the Suffolk, 

 Clydesdale, or heavy Lincolns, would in my 

 opinion make a great improvement. 



The plough here is similar to that general 

 ly used in Scotland, but much lighter and al 

 so shorter both in the beam and in the stilts 

 or handles, a difference rendered necessary for 

 avoiding the stumps standing in the fields 

 the remains of the ancient forests of which 

 few of the uplands are entirely cleared ; these 

 stumps are three or four feet high, and being 



