THE HIGHLANDS. i 4 j 



ble plenty, and might be improved : Hemp in great 

 abundance, and in high perfection. 



Small, but hardy horfcs, admirably fuited to the 

 labours of that rugged country, and which require 

 little fupport. They run wild among the moun- 

 tains till they arrive at a proper age for labour, 

 when fome thoufands are annually driven to the 

 fouth, chiefly to the coal-pits at Newcaftle. * 



But the above-mentioned articles are only fecon- 

 dary confiderations to the immenle numbers of fmall 

 black cattle which this country fends to the fouth, 

 fome of them as far as London, where, after being 

 fed in rich paftures, they fell at a high price. It is 

 by the breeding of cattle, that many farmers inha- 

 biting the interior country are enabled, in good 

 ieafons, to pay the high rents impofed on them j 

 but this fpecies of property is, in the Highlands, fo 

 precarious, as fometimes to involve whole dillricts 

 in one general fcene of diilrefs. 



Thefe indigent people are materially affected, 

 whether the cattle die through want, or fall in 

 their price, which is always regulated by the Eng- 

 lifli markets. In cither of theie cafes, the farmers, 

 (many of whom having no other refources) are 

 under the melancholy neceffity of removing eljc- 

 where for fupport. The fize and condition of the 

 Highland cattle might be greatly improved, by th^ 

 introduction of clover, rye-grafs, lucerne, and tur- 

 nips, for winter provifion> as lately practiled in the 

 Low Countries. 



tttpence in erecting high garden walls of (lone an<l lime, whereon 

 to raiie peaches, apricots, and other fruits, in the nucun'.i 

 which never cim be brought to any degree ot'perfeftion 

 climate, or in England beyond the Trent. The fruits ra : 



Scotland with fuccefs, are llrawberries, goofebctfries. 

 plumbs, cherries, pears, and in warm ieafons, apples 01 

 flavour, though Icarccly bearing a diilam rcica;bLaocc to t!. 



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* There is a fpecies of the horfe, in Barra, vthofc height .. 

 age is from thirty lo thi; i*s, 



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