28 x NOTES. 



So General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 256 ; Kames's Gentleman Far- 

 mer, p. 58. 



34 One was invented by the Rev. Mr Ramsay, of Maderty, in Perthshire, 

 and is described in the Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xijf, p. 565. 

 Another machine has been successfully used by Mr Spottiswoode, of Spottis- 

 woode, in Berwickshire, originally invented by Mr Robert Richardson, of 

 Keswick in Cumberland. See Transactions of the Society of Arts, vol. xxvi. 

 p. 190. 



35 North Riding Report, p. 208 and 213. 



36 See an account of Sir John S. Sebright's Experiments, Herts Report, 

 p. 130. 



37 There is an interesting paper on Trenching, by the Rev. Dr Skene Keith, 

 in the General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 395. 



38 Mr Monteath of Closeburn, and Mr Maclean of Mark, recommend, as a 

 beneficial practice, to trench or delve mossy soils, to bury the light surface, 

 and to bring up the black decayed moss, which is much better calculated for 

 improvement than the surface. General Report, vol. ii. p. 348. 



39 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 400. 



40 Kincardineshire Report, p. 398. 



41 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 46. 



42 Huntingdonshire Report, p. 301. 



43 Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. ii. p. 451. 



44 Ditto, p. 44. In Young's Norfolk, Chapter VI. on Inclosures, various 

 instances are given, of the success attending this mode of improvement. This 

 dressing adds rather more than half an inch of calcareous earth to the soil. 



45 Clydesdale Report, p. 150, note. 



46 Carse, it appears, is a Welsh word ; but spelt corse. It implies in Wales, 

 wet or fenny land. See the South Wales Report, vol. ii. p. 93. and 102. 



47 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 364. In the Appendix to that 

 Report, vol. ii. p. 38, there is a particular account of this singular and impor- 

 tant improvement, against which some prejudices are entertained, by those who 

 have not seen the effects. The alluvial soil at the bottom, is found to be great- 

 ly preferable to the peat above it, a mixture of which, however, is considered 

 to be useful. 



48 In the Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. ii. and in the 

 second Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the 

 state of disease and the condition of the Labouring Poor in Ireland, (printed in 

 June 1819), there are engravings of these pattens, and a description of them. 



49 See Mr Alton's valuable Treatise on the Improvement of Moss-Earth, 

 printed an. 1811, in which the subject is very thoroughly investigated, and 

 much practical information is detailed. 



50 It may be proper to mention here, the superior importance of lime in cul- 

 tivating waste lands. Mr Simpson, near Pickering, in Yorkshire, in the course 

 of improving some waste lands, left one acre of as good soil as any of the rest 

 unlimed. The first crop was turnips, in which it was not perceptible : but it 

 was strikingly marked in the next crop, that of oats, and still more so in the 

 grass-seeds, as very little clover was seen. The other part of the field became 

 tolerably good herbage, with some small branches of ling or heath thinly scatter- 

 ed amongst it ; but that part of thejield that was unlimed, was nearly destitute of 

 herbage, and covered with heath. North Riding Report, p. 209 ; Derbyshire Re- 

 port, vol. ii. p. 436. 



51 Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. vi. p. 530. Parish of Forfar : also 

 Hints as to the Agricultural State of the Netherlands, already alluded to. Part 

 I. p. 72. The same idea occurred to Dr Beeke, that by means of fir planta- 

 tions, the staple from the decaying vegetable matter might be so increased, that 

 the most barren wastes might be rendered fit for corn, Berks Report, p. 333. 



