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have either been wholly built, or have received 

 very large additions, or have undergone very 

 extensive repairs, within the last twenty-four 

 years. If to these we add several large and ele- 

 gant houses that have been built of late by some 

 opulent manufacturers in Kirkaldy, Dysart, and 

 and other places, the expence of building them 

 will, upon a moderate calculation, amount to 

 100,000!., within the above-mentioned period. 

 And if such a large sum of money has been ex- 

 pended in building and repairing only fifty or 

 sixty houses, what an immense sum may we 

 suppose has been laid out, during that time, in 

 building small proprietors houses, farm-houses 

 and offices, large houses for public works in the 

 manufacturing line, feus, cottages, and many 

 other houses in the towns and villages ? Should 

 we hazard a calculation, it cannot be less, it 

 probably be more, than 18,300!. annually, 

 which is only 300!. to each parish, and yet 

 this amounts to 439,200!.; so that the whole 

 money expended in building in this county, 

 during the last twenty-four years, cannot be 

 under 539,200!. It consists with my own 

 knowledge, that, in one country parish, the 

 money spent in building new houses, during 

 the last fourteen years, without taking the 

 houses of any of the great proprietors into the ac- 

 count, has amounted to upwards of 1 0,000 1. 



