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under black bottoms; 300 loads an acre. On 

 new lays the Baron has found a very fine effect 

 from it. Flax chiefly after potatoes, and then 

 barley. Sow enough for their own ufe, not 

 enough for manufactures for fale. For pota- 

 toes 4I. an acre for dunged land, or lay on 

 dung and have it for nothing. Much French 

 draining, 4 feet deep, and 5 inches at bottom; 

 fill with ftones, and the improvement found 

 very great ; the common farmers do much of 

 it. Tillage moftly with horfes. In hiring 

 farms they will take 100 acres with 200I. 

 Tythes are generally compounded. The Baron 

 has 800I. a year in tythes, and they pay upon 

 an average 2s. an acre. If diftinguilhed, wheat 

 is Ss. or 9s. Barley 8s. Oats 5s. Peafe 4s, 

 Meadow 4s. 6d. Many lands are hired to be 

 relet. Population encreafes very faft, and the 

 country in every refpect improves amazingly. 

 A cottage and half an acre 40s. to 3I. for a 

 cow 30s. generally have 2 cows. A belly full 

 of potatoes and oatmeal tox ft ir- about ; keep 2 

 or 3 pigs, and a great deal of poultry. They 

 are univerfally much better oif in every re- 

 fpe£i than 20 years ago. More indufirious, 

 owing perhaps very much to the high rents ; 

 infbmuch that they have been the parent of all 

 improvements. All the manures have been 

 found out within 20 years. Lime has not 

 been uftd more than 10 years. When Baron 

 Hamilton built the pier at Balbriggen, in the 

 year 1763, there was only one floop of culm 

 for burning lime in a feafon, but now from 

 6© to 100. 



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