CHAP. IV. 



HEATHY MOUNTAINS. 



From green pasture mountams, I proceed to a much 

 wilder description, whose improvement has as yet scarcely 

 been attempted; and this seems the moment for experiment, 

 when, in addition to the prospect of valuable improvement 

 from our labours, we know through the Board of Agri- 

 culture, that the devising occasion for calling labour into 

 action is deemed laudable ; and of course, should unfortu- 

 nately our speculations fail, yet the employment tbund by 

 them for the industrious and unoccupied, may fairly be 

 considered, at this time, as some abatement of the loss 

 sustained by the expense incurred in an unsuccessful 

 attempt. 



I have sanguine hopes that our eiforts will not be un- 

 successful, and shall state my reasons for expecting that 

 parts at least of these dreary, unproductive wastes, may be 

 made of some value to their proprietors, in place of their 

 present nullity. 



Our field is immense, and of very different description, 

 graduating- from grounds sufficiently encouraging, into 

 impracticability, and even inaccessibility. But it is not to 

 this wild extreme we are to look, nor are we to argue from 

 its horrors : the whole field is our own ; we have the option of 

 its most favourable parts ; nor need we look forward to spe- 



