24 A P P E N D I X, No. lit. 



No. III. 



A Momor'ialf containing fome Hints for anvahening a fpirit cf 

 Indujtry in the Highlands ^ and Propofals for ejlahlijhing Mar'- 

 iets for JVool in that part of the kingdom. 



I T is an undoubted facSl, that nothing tends fo much t& 

 excite induftry as a ready market for the articles it produ- 

 ces, and a fair price proportioned to their intrinfic value, — - 

 In every country where fuch marlcets abound, induftry is 

 found to flourifh ; and wlierever they are not, the people are 

 indolent, and difcover a want of energy in all their enter- 

 prizes. To this circumftance we are in a great meafure to 

 afcribe the national chara£ler of the Dutch for induftry ; 

 and to the fame caufe we muft refer the indolence of the 

 Poles, Ruffians, Turks, and many other nations. The na- 

 tives of the Highlands of Scotland experience this misfor- 

 tune in an eminent degree, which checks the hand of in- 

 duftry at home, and gives room for the people being brand- 

 ed with opprobrious epithets, which experience has proved 

 to be entirely groundlefs. Where is the country, I would 

 afe, in which a native of the Caledonian mountains has ac- 

 cefs to a ready market, that he does not outftrip all his ri- 

 vals, and make money in fituations where others lefs indu- 

 flrious than he are reduced to beggary and want ! Give 

 them, therefore, ready markets for the produdlions of their 

 native wilds, and they will become aiSlive and induftrlous, 

 rich and flourifliing. 



Among the few' produ£lions of their native mountains, no 

 one article, except live (lock, is perhaps of greater value than 

 wool; and this promifes to become from year to year of 

 greater and greater value ftill. Their climate is peculiarly 

 favourable for producing wool in greater perfeclion than any 

 other part of Britain ; and they pofTefs natural advantages 

 for improving tlieir breeds of fliLcp, and meliorating their 



wool, 



