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bounded by the great mountain of Clara Ifland, 

 and the vaft region of Crow-Patrick, on the 

 right , from the hill above the wood, on the 

 right of the houie, is a view of the bay, with 

 feveral iflands, bounded by the hummocks, and 

 Clara Iiland, with Crow-Patrick immediately 

 rifing like the fuperior lord of the whole terri- 

 tory, and looking down on a great region of 

 other mountains that ftretch into Joyce's 

 country. 



In Lord Altamont I found an improver, 

 whofe works deferved the clofefl attention ; he 

 very readily favoured me with the following 

 account: he began to improve mountain land 

 in 1768, and has every year lince done fome, 

 making it a rule to employ whatever labourers 

 offer for work. All of it covered with heath, 

 (erica vulgaris) and the foil on the furface 

 moor j would let for two fhillings an acre for 

 turning young cattle on, the only ufe to which 

 it was applied. 



Experiment, No. 1. 



Improved a piece of mountain land, of the 

 above defcription, by fpreading lime-ltone fand. 

 (N. B. The marie called here fand, is what I 

 have generally found under the denomination 

 of lime- Hone gravel; the ftones in it are of the 

 Hze of a man's double flit, it is clayey, and 

 very hard bound together in the ftratum ; the 

 harder to raife, the better it is. It has a ftrong 

 fermentation with acids.) Spread the fand on. 

 the heath, and left it for one year, at the ex- 



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