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who should make way for the remaining number, and 

 I shall be most happy to consolidate farther the pos- 

 sessions, which I admit are still smaller than I should 

 like them to be. But if they desire to annex any of 

 the crofts belonging to their neighbours on the two 

 adjacent farms of KirkapoU, and Yaull, I must con- 

 sult the wishes of those who are to be dispossessed. 



The same observations apply to the smaller farm of 

 Salum. The number of crofters has been reduced by 

 the same process from six to four, and of the four who 

 now occupy the farm, one has a croft worth £24. rent, 

 another has a croft worth ;^ 1 9, a third has one of ^i 5, 

 whilst only one has a croft of the ^8 class. The third 

 farm, that of Caolis, had twelve crofters in 1847, and 

 has still as many as ten. But of these divisions, one 

 is a little farm of ;^46 rent, and another is a croft 

 just at the upper limit of the class, namely ;^30 : the 

 other eight vary from ;^i6 to £g. Caolis is in many 

 respects one of the best farms in Tyree. In the report 

 of 1778 I find it described as ''a very fine farm 

 already enclosed ; the arable of the best quality, and 

 the grass fine pasturing." 



The general result as regards these three farms is 

 this: In 1847 ^^^ aggregate rental of them all was Comparison of 

 jf.^S^y whilst at the present moment the same rental ^^"^''^^ ^^ ^^^^® 



. , . . , . ^ ^ farms in 1847 



1S;^4I5, showing an increase in thirty-five years of and now. 

 only 17 per cent., whilst similar lands let to 

 larger tenants have advanced, as I have shown, 

 during the same period, by about 220 per cent. 

 The lowness of the rent may be estimated in 

 another way. I find from the detailed report and 

 survey of the farms in 1777, that these three farms 



