298 RURAL ECONOMY OF ENGLAND. 



like the Lowlands, a population such as that of Glasgow 

 and its dependencies causes the demand for agricultural 

 produce to be felt over its whole extent. 



The Union besides was the great means of at once giving 

 value to Scotch agriculture, by opening up the immense 

 market of England itself for her produce ; and even now, 

 notwithstanding an increasing local consumption, there 

 is a considerable export of Scotch agricultural commo- 

 dities for the English markets.""" 



The pastures of Galloway and Forfarshire, and even 

 the remote Highlands, send their thousands of young 

 cattle to be fed and fattened on the grass-lands of the 

 South. Even in the markets of London, where they are 

 greatly appreciated for the quality of their beef, may be 

 seen the shaggy Highland cattle, the black cattle of 

 Angus, and the polled cattle of Galloway, all distinctly 

 recognisable in character. So with us, the red cattle 

 of Auvergne, the white from Charolais, the brown from 

 La Vendee, and the russet from Limousin, which are 

 sent in droves to the abattoirs of Paris, are easily 

 distinguished from the speckled breeds of Normandy 

 and Brittany. Scotland sends to England, besides, 

 a large portion of her wheat, reserving scarcely more 

 than the oats and barley. In this way, for the last 

 hundred years she has been a seller to England to the 

 value of tens of millions sterling, t 



But England's best gift to Scotland, as in that is included 

 all the rest, is her constitution and political character. 



Up to 1750 Scotland was the stronghold of feudal 



* But perhaps the most valuable contribution which Scotland now makes to 

 the English stock markets is in the great quantity of fat cattle and sheep which 

 she sends to England from her eastern counties particularly from Aberdeen, 

 East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Roxburgh a great part of the former of which 

 are imported lean to the latter districts from the South. J. D. 



t We fear this leads to an inference which would be far from correct. Un- 



