AGRICULTURE IN SCOTLAND — 179I-1796. lOI 



formally executed leases. The tacksmen's servants have their wages assigned 

 them in pasture for a cow, a horse, a breeding mare, and any number of sheep ; 

 a farthing di\'ision of land for corn and potatoes, with a due proportion of sea- 

 ware for manure ; a kailyard, fuel, an allowance of a peck of meal a \^'eek, 

 beside a day in the week allotted for the cultivation of their own little 

 possessions. A young man, unmarried, and living in his master's family, 

 receives £,2 of yearly ^\ages, with four pairs of shoes ; a female servant in the 

 same situation, only 6s. 8d., with two pairs of shoes, for the year's service. A 

 workman by the day has from 8d, to lod. There is but one mason in the 

 island, and he is a stranger ; he has is. 6d. for the summer day's M-ork ; only 

 IS. for the work of a winter day. The parish blacksmith has a salary of two 

 pecks of meal, or is. from every farthing land, and eats with his employers 

 when called to work. 



The above glimpse of a primitive economy may fitly close 

 our View of the Agricultural Condition of Scotland when 

 the Highland Society began its active operations. 



