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manufacture. Their potatoes they univerfal- 

 ly plant on an old lay-, they fpread their 

 dung in beds for the trenching way, none 

 under the plough. Plant 8 to 10 barrels on 

 an acre, laid at 6 inches from one another. 

 When the plants are about an inch or two 

 high, they cover them a fecond time from the 

 trenches. They hand weed them. No hir- 

 ing land of farmers for it, but all on their own 

 account. 



There are many copfes on the fides of 

 mountains of birch, oak, afh, and holly, 

 which are cut generally at 25 years growth 

 for poles for building cabbinsj the bark for 

 tan, and the fmaller branches for charcoal. 

 They are worth from 12I. to 25I. an acre. 

 Many of them on very fteep fides of moun- 

 tains, and to a great height; but no great 

 oak woods, fince the Shillaly woods were cut 

 down about 1 2 years ago. 



There are confiderable tra&s of mountain 

 land improved ; if dry heath land, they plough, 

 crofs plough, burn, and then fow rye, getting 

 8 barrels, after which they have oats, and 

 crop it as long as it will produce. Unim- 

 proved mountain, confifting of rock, furze, 

 (ulex europoeus) fern, (pteris aquilina) &c. but 

 dry, lets at 8s. an acre, at which rent they 

 have it for 31 years. The improvement is 

 reckoned very profitable. No folding fheep: 

 there is not fuch a thing as a hurdle known. 

 They pare and burn the mountain as the only 



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