* 
Sor inity, 4 Exlos gy” 
420 
followed in the printed productions of ele- 
gant writers: whence I have fometimes 
been tempted to afk what fpecies of ears 
multi have adorned the learned heads of 
Mefirs. Holmes and Milner, who, in their 
{guabbling advertifements concerning the 
originality of their refpective Greek gram- 
mars, could endure to write *¢ AN Year!” 
Now, euphony not requiring that the 
«* N” be added before the ‘* Y’’ when pro- 
nounced as above, I prefume it to be 
eguaily unneceflary before any word which 
begins with the fame found, whether the 
baste Saend ol = actually written, or not; fince 
it is not forthe fake of the eye, but in the 
ar, that the ‘© VN”? is omitted or added, 
as we evidently fee in the cafes of the af 
pirate,“and the) mute **. 77,7 ize fey A 
Hor fe’ —** An Hour. ~ 
It will, I believe, be acknowledged, 
that, although we write Union, Unifor- 
Wi Ys Eulogy,” Sc. we really pronounce 
&* You-nion, You- -niformity, You- -lozy; &c. 
Wherefore, in imitation of thofe learned 
Grecits’ who frequently call in the aid of 
the invifiile « Zolic digamma™’ to folve 
a dificu'ty, I beg leave to claim the af- 
‘fiftance of the “* unwritten Y” to protect 
me from critical attacks whenever hence- 
forward I fay or wr ite “© A Union, A Uni- 
Peas as I certainly in- 
tend to do, until convinced that I am 
wrong. : i 
I conclude, Mr. Editor, by expreffing t 
my hope that this queition—which, though 
no of momentous import te the peace and 
well-being of mankind, may neverthelefs, 
by fome of your readers, be deemed not 
wholly unworthy of attention—will be 
confidered and diicufled by fome more able 
graymarian than, Sir, Yours, &c. 
Merlin s Place, O&. 15, 1800. hie 
—=Za 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
JOURNAL.of a TOUR through sCOTLAND, 
made in 1798, by JOHN HOUSMAN. 
(Continued from page 311.) 
ELKIRKSHI!I RE, through whichi have 
S pale to-day, contains about 240 (quare 
miles, or 153,600 Englifh acres, only a 
{mall proportion ot - whit h is. arable, 
The whole county feems only a peace 
tion of hills, many of which are prett 
high. Thefe -hills divide, and admit : 
pallace to a great number of rivers and 
brooks, which wath as many dells or 
vales of greater or lefler dimenfions. 
“Thefe vales are generally cultivated and 
Inhabited, while ihe hills remain in a fate 
of nature, and are depattured with theep. 
‘The icil-of the low grounds is moftly dry, 
Re 
Houfman’s Tour in Scotland. 
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either gravel or fandy loam; that on high 
grounds various, in fome places heathy ae 
mvorifi, in others there is a moxture of 
rock ; but commenly a dry green {ward 
prevails thereon. 
The proportion of arable and pafture 
Jand, in Scotch acres, is thus eltimated in 
the agricultural report of that county, to- 
getherwith the eftimated real value of each. 


6,880 acres arable, atios.6d. £3,612 
116,099 acres paiture, at 2s: 6d. 14,000 
122,880 or 153,600 acr. Eng. £17,612 
= 
Farms in this county are generally from 
sol. to 3001. of vearly rent, The higheft- 
rented farm in the county is all arable, and 
contains about soo acres, at 19S. per acre. 
The tenant cultivates turnips on about a 
fifth part of it annually. The terms of 
leafes are generally from eleven to twenty- 
one years; but onthe Duke of Buccleugh’s 
eftate very few leafes are granted, which 
is a great bar to ‘apa but which 
it is hoped the good fenfe of his grace will 
foon remove. | Inclofing the farms in fe- 
parate fields is a late improvement, and in 
many infiances not yet adopted, and in 
others but flowly. Stene dykes are very 
common, but thorn hedges are efieemed 
the moft ufeful fence. There may be 
about 2800 acres of woodland in the 
county, of which about 150 acres are na- 
tural, and the reft planted. A. tafte for 
planting prevails, and the country will pro- 
bably in the courfe of a few years be 
much more adorned and fheltered by 
woods waving on the fides of their barren 
hills. Befides the dung and manure pro- 
duced in the farm-yards, this county is 
fupplied with limeand abundance of fhell- 
marl, which is found under peat-mofs, 
and fold for about 7d. per fingle cart-load. 
They reckon that about twenty-five or 
thirtyfingle cart loads ought to belaid upon 
an Englith acre. A top- -dreffing of marlon 
patture land is found very ufeful in eradi- 
cating mofs, and caufing white clower, &c.: 
to {pring up. 
The mof approved rotations of crops 
are,—on zfield, or the bet foil, 1. turnips 
or potatoes with dung; 2. barley with 
gra{s- feeds; 3. hay; 4. paure; 5. oats. 
Secondly, T. turnips or potatoes dunged ; 
2. barley with grals-feeds 3 3. hay ; Ae 
hay ; 5. oats; 6. peas; 7. oats. On out~ 
field, or coarfer land, 1. eats; 2. oats 5 
3. turnips with dung; 4. barley with 
graflzs ; 5. hay; 6. 7. 8.9. paiture. On 
frill coarfer land, 1. fummer fallow 5 2¢ 
ditto, with liane or marl; 3. oats; 4. tur- 
nips broadca®, and eaten on the field with 
3H2 theep 5 
[Deeas5) 
