CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



LETTER I. 



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 Motives for, and objects in, visiting Ireland 1 



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LETTER II. -MUG 



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Extraordinary instance of the force of habit Inspect 

 the improvements in the neighbourhood of Wigton 

 Cross the Solway Firth Beauties of the opposite 

 shore Annan . 11 



LETTER III. 



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Value of early rising to travellers Burnt clay used as 

 manure Cause and progress of cleanliness Popular 

 objections to inclosures Population of Dumfries- 

 Cheap supply of milk, by Major Goldie and others 

 Cultivation of florin Closeburn .......... . . < . . * ; - 24 



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 LETTER IV. 



Castle of Closeburn Limekilns on an improved con- 

 struction M. Monteith's improvements in mountain 

 husbandry Improved field-gates Mr. Mundell, of 

 Wallace Hall, a successful cultivator of timothy grass 



Requisites for rural improvements .............. S8 



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