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Abstract of Expenditure on Kildonan Eeolamations for the 
Month of June, 1878. 
No. 
£ 
x. 
d. 
Drainiug . . 
Bannockburn 
1 
6 
7 
1 
AcLintoul . . 
2 
100 
18 
10 
Claggan . . . . 
Kinbrace 
3 
6 
13 
11 
4 
1(> 
4 
1 
Trenching ,. 
Baddanloch 
5 
30 
10 
2 
Bannockburn 
1 
77 
14 
4 
Achintoul . . 
G 
8 
11 
Claggan .. .. 
3 
62 
16 
5 
■• ■• 
Kinbrace 
4 
5 
3 
8 
) > • ■ • • 
Bad dan loch 
5 
67 
4 
8 
Clearing 
Bannockburn 
1 
4 
12 
10 
., •• •• 
Achintoul . . 
2 
65 
11 
0 
> > 
Claggan 
3 
6 
13 
Baddanloch 
5 
0 
10 
2 
Fencing 
Bannockburn 
83 
19 
4 
Achintoul . . 
2 
0 
12 
0 
Baddanloch 
5 
51 
17 
1 
Building 
) > 
BannockbTiru 
1 
2 
5 
2 
Achintoul . . 
2 
4 
13 
0 
Claggan 
4 
10 
9 
Kinbrace 
4 
7 
5 
9 
Baddanloch 
5 
12 
4 
5 
Liming 
Achintoul . . 
2 
40S 
17 
10 
Bannockburn 
1 
4 
12 
10 
Achintoul . . 
2 
20 
0 
6 
Claggan . . . . 
3 
1 
17 
9 
Baddanloch 
5 
104 
18 
3 
Farming 
Achintoul . . 
2 
17 
14 
6 
Brora Works 
*■ 
100 
0 
0 
Plant 
•• 
178 
5 
9 
1459 
4 
11 
previous preparation of the ground ; but over a great part of this 
area the peat is not more than a foot in depth, and it rests upon 
a very open subsoil, varying from sand to gravel. Roadways 
were at first prepared by removing the peat and throwing in 
stones ; but subsequent experience has shown that it is generally 
best to leave the natural surface unbroken, merely cutting a 
trench through the peat on each side in order to lay it dry, and 
then to lay upon this tough elastic bed the stones that are carted 
off the surface of the land that is to be broken up. Water for 
the engines was obtained by intercepting the surface-water at 
the base of the eastern hills, and carrying it, Avherever it was 
required, in channels cut in but not through the peat. The surface 
of the land at Achintoul is not so level as that of the Shinness 
land, but, except by the sides of the streams, it is nowhere steep 
enough to impede cultivation. The three fields adjacent to the 
streams, viz. Nos. 1, 7, and 10, are not intended for arable 
land, but will be laid down for pasture. They embrace all the 
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