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no town's dues) is £"108,970. the assessment for lighting the city, Sec. Sec. amount 

 to 6\d. per pound, as stated in the annexment. There is no other burthens on 

 ^he inhabitants that I know of, but what is collected for government. 



I have been solicited by a gentleman in Airshire, with whom I correspond, to 

 state to your Lordship the following improvement of waste land, by a poor, but 

 ingenious old man, G. Kinnaird. 



This gentleman told me that he had two acres attached to his farm, of a peaty 

 substance ; and though it lay with a considerable declivity, was so soft at bottom 

 that he thought it prudent to inclose it off his farm, for endangering his cows in 

 going into it. 



The person above named, who had a strong propensity to try his skill in im- 

 proving, applied to him for the said two acres. It was given him rent free. 



From some heath covered knolls he built a small hut, and covered it with 

 the heath, in which he took up his residence. He then laid off his field into 

 ridges of five yards broad, conducted them on a level till he could obtain a fall 

 of six inches, and then gave them the fall perpendicular. He collected a quantity 

 of the clearing of the roads, in which he mixed a small quantity of lime and dung, 

 and laid all on as a manure. 



From laying down his litde field as above, he was able to keep it nearly 

 equal in moisture, by throwing in a turf at these breaks, when drought prevailed, 

 and removing them when it was wet: and he believes from that mode of procedure 

 he has to impute his great success. He has raised wheat, barley, oats, rutabaga, 

 common turnip, all to great perfection ; and the gentleman told me, that he looked 

 upon his crop last year to be worth £\o. per acre. 



HADDINGTONSHIRE. 



George Biichan Hepburn, Esq. 



Husbandry day-labourers in Haddingtonshire are generally married men; they 

 have a cottage and a garden, the thirty-second part of an acre, two cart load of 

 coals drove, they paying the prime cost at the hill ; the rent of the house, is a 

 reaper, generally the wife, in harvest, without wages, get their victuals; porridge 

 and milk to breakfast and supper, and bread and beer to dinner; 12 pound weight 



