28 Cause and Progress of Cleanliness. 



posite side of the Frith is quite astonishing, I 

 have no clue by which the reasoning of each, 

 on this subject, would tend to an illustration. 



To attempt a solution of this difficulty, which 

 I have never yet heard satisfactorily explained, 

 I conceive we must have reference to conse- 

 quences arising out of the habits of former 

 times, when in Scotland and Ireland the pro- 

 perty was exclusively vested in the lords of the 

 soil, with few distinctions in the orders of so- 

 ciety; industry augmented the grandeur and 

 resources of those, already opulent, whilst it 

 afforded but a scanty pittance to those, by the 

 sweat of whose brows the augmentation was ob- 

 tained. More than one hundred years after the 

 union of the two kingdoms, the state of the 

 people was here but little improved. 



What alterations had taken place were almost 

 exclusively confined to the nobles and superior 

 classes, who, in former days, maintained a state 

 of too great distance and authority to allow 

 such an intimate approach of their inferiors as 

 would induce the imitation of any of their re- 

 finements. 



A perpetual passage on the hardest rock will 

 form a beaten path, while the casual footsteps 



