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but its forms are piclurefque in the higheft 

 degree ; great projections of hill, with glens 

 behind all wooded, have a noble effect. Every 

 feature of the whole view is great, and unites to 

 form a fcene of natural magnificence. From 

 hence a riding is cut through the hanging 

 wood, which rifes to a central fpot, where 

 the general has cleared away the rubbifh from 

 under the wood, and made a beautiful waving 

 lawn with many oaks and hollies fcattered 

 about it -, here he has built a cottage, a pretty 

 whimfical oval room, from the windows of 

 which are three views, one of diftant rich lands 

 opening to the fea, one upon a great moun- 

 tain, and a third upon a part of the lawn. 

 It is well placed and forms upon the whole 

 a moft agreeable retreat. The following par- 

 ticulars of agriculture I had from General 

 Cunninghame, who took every means of hav- 

 ing me well informed. 



About Mount Kennedy the country is in- 

 clofed within various mountains and high 

 lands; farms are generally very fmall, from 

 20 acres to 100, except in mountainous tracts, 

 where they are larger, fome from 300 to 60c 

 acres. The foil is in general a dry found gra- 

 vel, hanging to the fouth eaft, and protected 

 by mountains from the north weft. The rent, 

 on an average, from 30s. to 50s. not moun- 

 tain, which is ufually 8s. or 10s. The Ikirt 

 of the whole countv, from the mountain down 

 to the fea, is from 30s. to 50s. an acre, being 

 a fixth of it. One third of it, uncultivated 

 and uninhabited, lets for not more than 6d. 



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