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for about 6s. a head. The wool is eather fold at home to the country people, or in Ceres market, at from 135. 10 161. a stone, which requires about twenty fleeces,The hogs only are falved; and both the white and fmeared wool fell at the fame price.

I am of opinion that this breed might be greatly improved by means of a cross with the frue bred fouth border ram, of a finali fize, but finé wool. This would increase the weight of the theep, especially in their fore quarter, and would render the fleeces much clofen at the top."

Tire Tent-moor sheep are alfo known by the name of the Seuchy Dyke breed: and it is faid that the inhabitants in that neighbourhood are of Danish extraction, and fil preferve fome remains of their original caftoms and language.

It would be extremely difficult for any perfon to fay what was the origisal breed of the fheep in Fife; as, except these on Tent moor, they feem a mixture of almost every kind that can be thought of. There is no jadging of the real value of the wool from the prices I have mentioned, as it is mostly fold to the poor people in the country, who are obliged to purchafe it for making clothes, blankets, and stockings; and, befides that thefe people are no judges of the quality and price, they have no other market at hand where they could be fupplied. On the whole, I should think that it fells for at least one third more than it is really worth, at leatt when compared with the price at which the wool of the fouthern parts of Scotland is commonly fold.

At Montrofe, I learnt, that, about fifteen years ago, a mall woolen manufacture was established by a company of gen lemen, who carried on bufinefs to the extent of about fifteen hundred pounds a year; but, in the Space of about nine years, they gave it over, and the bufinefs has fince been Carried on by Mr Robert Miller, who

was formerly manager. for the come pany. This gentleman intends to EX» tend the bufinefs tomes hat this year; and he lays he is confident a woolen manufacture would aufwer there extremery well, if carried on by one who had fufficient capital to afford the famé credit to the dealers that is given by the English manufactureis.

My Miller employs a fmall spinning machine tor woolen yare, which draws twenty-four threads at once, and which, he lays, anfwers very well. By his books, which he was kind enough to flow me, it appears, that, in the year 1788 he manufactured 1922 yards, in 1789 he made 9141 yards, and last year 5806 yards. The firit of thele years his manufac turè confifted entirely of cloth; in the fecond year, befides cloth, he made a confiderable quantity of flan. nel; and laft year, moftly all cloth. He fells his goods to the dealers in Montrofe, Edinburgh, Glafgow, and other towns. He makes broad cloths from three and fixpence, to seventeen fhillings a yard; and narrow cloths from one thilling and terpence to fix thillings. His flannels are from one fhing up to one filing and teðpence a yard. He is just now about to make trial of the manufacture of Kerleymare, which he is in hopes will turn out to good account.

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The wool which he principally employs comes from the fouth borders of Scotland, there being very litde in the north fit for his purpofe. He thinks that fome of the best spinners of worfted yarn in the kingdom are to be found on the fide of the river Dee. They fpin at the rate of from two fhillings to two fhillings and fixpence; er fpindle.

A manufactory of worfted hofiery is likewife carried on at Montrofe, but to no great ext. nt. At the weekly market of this place, which holds on Friday, there is fone woo! fold during the months of June and July;

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increafing the general weight of carcafe is in moft cafes very questionable. The only diforder to which the fheep in these parts are fubject is called by the country people the braxy, which, fo far as I could learn, is the fame with the difeafe known un der the name of fickness in Teviotdale, The hogs are fubject to this di cafe. They are afflicted with it from the end of October to the end of December, or until a good deal of frost or fnow falls; after which time they are almoft never troubled with it. They are gener Hy feized very fuddenly with a fwelling of the whole body, and they die in a short time, after which the body is very much difcoloured. There has been no cure yet found for this d feafe; but, I. fhould think, if it were attended to when the disease firit makes its appearance, by using a fmall quantity of tar, in the fame manner as is given to black cattle when fwelled with turnip or clover, a good effect might be produced; at least it is worth making a trial.

The method of herding the sheep in thefe parts is exceedingly improper, as they are conftantly kept clofe together in hfels, by which means they

never permitted to fettle at their food. Sheep naturally spread; and this plan requires the herd to difturb thm perpetually, on purpofe to keep them together. This bad practice appears to proceed from their paflures bing in common, which makes it neceflary to herd them in thefe clofe bifel, to prevent the fheep of the yarious tenants from mixing.

Their other practice of folding their fheep every night, from fhearing time till the month of April following, is likewife very hurtful. It must be very prejudicial to fold fheep at night, even in the fummer feafon, but much more fo in the winter, as they are then expofed to every kind of weather, without having it in their power to feek for fhelter, which they would do if they were left to their liberty.

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From Cupar I went to Text-msorg in the parith of Leuchars, where I was informed of a peculiar breed of theep. This moor, which is fuppofed to contain 3000 acres of land, is of a very fandy foil, and produces very little grafs, but is covered with vast quantities of whins or furze, on which the sheep chiefly fubfift. It is bounded on the east by the sea, by the Firth of Tay on the north, and by the river Eden on the fouth. The theep on this moor are very fmail have moftly white faces, and long fmall upright horns like goats. When fat, they weigh from four and a half to fix pounds a quarter. They have very long wool in proportion to their fize, and the fleece is very open at the top, but, upon examination, turns out much finer than could be fuppofed from their first appearance, for they look more like goats than theep.

So far as I could learn, the fame breed has been kept on thefe moors from time immemorial; for no perfon remembers any attempt having been made to change the breed, by crof fing or otherwife. The people here have no particular modes of managing their fheep, any farther than this, that each takes care to keep his own little flock from ftraying out of his own farmi. The whole moor keeps about 2000 head..

The farmers here always fell fome of their ewes, with lanes at their feet, in the Cupar marker; and for these they got, laft year, from 78. tò 7s. 6d. They fell their wedders, at the fame time, when two years old,

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for about 6s. a head.

The wool is eather fold at home to the country people, or in Ceres market, at trom 135.10 161. a fton, which requires abour twenty fleeces, the hogs only are falved; and both the white and fmeared wool fell at the fame price. 1 I am of opinion that this breed might be greatly improved by means of a cross with the frue bred fouth brder ram, of a finali fize, but fine wool. This would increase the weight of the sheep, especially in their fore quarter, and would render the fleeces much clofen at the top

was formerly manager. for the com pany. This gentleman intends to extend the bufinefs tomes hat this year; and he fays he is confident a woolen manufacture would answer there extremery well, if carried on by one who had fufficient capital to afford the famé credit to the dealer's that is given by the English manufactureis.

The Tent-moor sheep are alfo known by the name of the Seuchy Dyke breed: and it is faid that the inhabitants in that neighbourhood are of Danish extraction, and il preferve fome remains of their original caftoms and language.

It would be extremely difficult for any perfon to fay what was the origimal breed of the theep in Fife; as, except these on Tent moor, they feem a mixture of almost every kind that can be thought of. There is no jadging of the real value of the wool from the prices I have mentioned, as it is mostly fold to the poor people in the country, who are obliged to purchafe it for making clothes, blankets, and ftockings; and, befides that thefe people are no judges of the quality and price, they have no other market at hand where they could be fupplied. On the whole, I should think that it fells for at least one third more than it is really worth, at least when compared with the price at which the wool of the fouthern parts of Scotland is commonly fold. ..At

At Montrofe, I learnt, that, about fifteen years ago, a mall woolen manufacture was established by a company of gen lemen, who carried on bufinefs to the extent of about fifteen hundred pounds a year; but, in the Space of about nine years, they gave it overpand the bufinefs has fince been Carried on by Mr Robert Miller, who

Mr Miller employs a fmall spioning machine for Woolen yare, which draws twenty-four threads at once, and which, he lays, answers very well. By his books, which he was kind enough to flow me, it appears, that, in the year 1788 he manufactured 1922 yards, in 1789 he made 9141 yards, and last year 5806 yards. The firit of thele years his manufac turè confifted entirely of cloth; in the fecond year, befides cloth, he made a confiderable quantity of filannel and laft year, moftly all cloth. He fells his goods to the dealers in Montrofe, Edinburgh, Glafgow, and other towns. He makes broad cloths from three and fixpence, to feventeen fhillings a yard; and narrow cloths from one hilling and terpence to fix thillings. His flannels are from one fhilling up to one filing and tenpence a yard. He is just now about To make trial of the manufacture of Kerfeymare, which he is in hopes will turn out to good account.

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The wool which he principally employs comes from the fouth borders of Scotland, there being very little in the north fit for his purpofe. He thinks that fome of the best fpinners of worsted yarn in the kingd m are to be found on the fide of the river Dee. They fpin They fpin at the rate of from two fhillings to two fhilings and fixpence per fpindle.

A manufactory of worsted hofery is likewife carried on at Montrose, but to no great extent. At the weekly market of this place, which holds on Friday, there is fome woo! fold during the months of Jude and July;

but it is of a kind which does not anfwer the purposes of the clothier.

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The country, from Brechin to Montrofe, is of an excellent foil, and is kept in very good order. mode of husbandry is apparently very judicious. The linen manufacture alfo is very flourishing; there being, I was informed, at least ning millions of yards of linen made annually in the county of Angus.

I found myf.lf very much difappointed on getting to Glen-Efk, or Loch-lee, as it is likewife called, where I had been made to expect wool of a very great finenefs. Sɔ far from there being any particular breed of theep in thefe parts, bearing wool of a very fuperior quality, I found that the fheep were mostly of the Linton or Tweed-dale breed.

The wool of the black faced, or Linton fheep, is moftly all fold white or unlaid, and gives from eight to ten hillings a ftone, which requires eight or ten fleeces The wool of the mixed grey faced breed gives a better price, about thirteen hillings; but then it requires fixteen or eighteen Beeces to make a ftone. The markets ar: Brechin and Montrofe.

There are about four or five fcore of goats kept in Glen-Efk, and I think, they might keep a great many more to advantage, as there are feveral hills where fheep cannot feed, being fo exceedingly craggy.

The sheep in Glen Muick are much the fame as thefe in Glen Elk, being mostly of the Linton breed, bought in the fpring and autumn, and fold, when four year old, to the Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen butchers for thirteen or fourteen fhillings a-head. The other heep are a crofs between a fmall breed, which they call the white theep, and the Linton or Tweed-dale breed.

It is very common here to fee the Small tenants, who, I fuppofe, do not pay upon an average above feven or eight pounds 2-year, ploughing upon fine

level haughs with three galloways and four or fix fmall oxen, and even fome of them with ten kyloes in a plough.

The cloth bufinefs is but in its infancy at Aberdeen, but is advancing faft.. The wool is got from the south borders of Scotland and the north of England; as they find the wool which grows in the neighbourhood does not anfwer either for cloth or worsted ftuffs.

From Aberdeen to Ellon there are very few or almoft no theep, and what are kept are of a mixed kind.

From Portfoy to Elgin very few fheep are k pt at prefent, owing to the improvement of the land, and the great quantity of trees planted. 1 fhould think the Bakewell or Leicestershire breed very fit for the coaft fide, where the ground is improved, as probably there always will be a ready market for combing wool to make worsted ftuffs and ftockings, in that neighbourhood. It is hardly to be credited how muci. the great proprietors on this coaft, in particular the Duke of – Gordon, Lord Fife, and Lord Findlater, might improve the value of their property, by introducing proper breeds of theep, calculated either for the hilly, or the cultivated parts of their eftates.

From Elgin to Narn the sheep are all of the fall kind, and very few are kept (not above forty score in all) as the land is noftly in tillage or planted. Several of the sheep on this part of the coaft have very little wool, particularly before, probably owing to the poverty of their food. Mr Brodie of Brodie, about half way between Forres and Nairn, has begun to crofs his fheep with a large tup, but the pastore feems better calculated for a fiatl breed.

From Tain I croffed over into Satherland; the fheep kept upon the eall coaft in that country are very fmall, and of the fame kind as thofe in the fhires of Rofs and Cromarty. They have the fame pernicious cuftom

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there, as they have almost univerfally to the north of the Frith of Forth, of boufing the fheep at night. They fell their wedders at, from fix to eight fhillings, and the ewes and lambs from four to fix fhillings a head. It would take a long time for a perfon to afcertain exactly what number of sheep is kept on that part of the coaft, as there are between two and three hundred fmail tenants who keep from ten to twenty, and fome about thirty fheep each, and only two or three who keep above five fcore. What wool is fold there they fell at twelve shillings a ftone. It takes from eighteen to twenty fleeces to the ftone.

The fheep in Caithnefs are in general of the fame fort with thofe in Sutherland, and managed in the fame manner. There has been no trial made in that county to improve the breed of sheep, except at Thurfo Caftle, where there are fume fheep brought from England by Sir John Sinclair. Thefe are of the Herefordshire breed, and have thriven well, and produce good wool.

I saw almost the whole of the county of Caithness, and I think there are very few places in it fit for keeping heep, the ground being either in tillage or naturally very wet. The most Jikely places belides Sanfide, are the hills of Yarrows, and the eftates of Langwell and Lathron-wheel. The two former are the property of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbfter, the latter, of Mr Dunbar of Hemprigs.

From Bighouse I went to the west point of Sutherland, as far as Capewrath, where the land feems to be to; lerably well calculated for theep, but there are very few kept at prefent, and what they have are either of the fall kind or a mixture of thefe with the black faced ones.

From Durness I croffed over, by the head of Lochuaver, to Colonel Baillie's of Rofe-Hall, who has let a large fheep farm, which feems to anLwer very well.

The whole of that part of the country feems well calculated for fheep having plenty of heath, mofs, and ling, with a mixture of fine grafs; but notwithstanding thefe advantages, it has in general a great want of hay. Sheep, however, are hardly ever known to want hay in that neighbourhood, as the foow feldom lies long on the ground.

From Inverness to Aviemore the ground is very high, and almost entirely covered with heath. The sheep are very fmail, of the fame kind with thefe I have fo often mentioned.

Strathfpey, on the whole, and particularly Sir James Grant's eftates, feem to be well adapted for fheep farming.

From Aviemore to Pitmain the fheep and ground are much the fame as between Inverness and Aviemore.— There is a place near Pitmain, called Glen Fishey, where there were once very fine wocled fheep, but they are now quite adulterated, owing to the croffing with the black faced kind.-A few years ago, a gentleman from London applied to Mr McLean of Cluny, near Pitmain, to fee if he could procure him a few of the old breed, but none could be found.

The wedders in general fell for from 135. to 16s. and the ewes from 75. to 9s. the markets are chiefly Glaf gow and Perth. The fmall kind of heep fell from 7s. to 9s, and the ewes from 4s. to 6s. a head. The wh'te wool unwashed fells for ros. a-ftone, and the laid for 5s.

The whole of the ground from Pitmain to a few miles b. low Blair in Athol is much of the fame quality, and the fhe p and wool hkewife, excepting a large flock belonging to the Duke of A hol, which are improved by a crofs, fome years ago, with a Cul ley tup.

The wool of these sheep last year fold at Aberdeen for about 12s. and 12s. 6d a-ftone.

The wool and sheep of the other farms in this part of the country are principally

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