PBEFATOKY NOTE. 



THE following paper on the Eeclamation and Protection of Land 

 was communicated to the Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland, and published in the last volume of the Society's 

 Transactions, and is republished in its present form with the 

 sanction of the Directors. 



The Publishers conceive that the subjects briefly treated in the 

 following pages are of sufficient general interest to agriculturists 

 to warrant separate publication, while the chapters on the 

 reclamation of land from the sea afford information in some 

 respects new, and likely to prove useful on a branch of agricul- 

 tural engineering which ere long may engage general attention. 



To show the interest now taken in works of reclamation, it 

 may be stated that in France the Paris Society for the Encourage- 

 ment of National Industry has invited competitive papers 

 to be given in during the year 1874, "On Eeclamation of Land 

 and Embankments ; " and in America the same subject has been 

 brought before the Government Department intrusted with the 

 coast survey of the United States. In England also many 



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