General Report of the Agricultural State- and Political-Circumstances of Scotland, Volume 1A. Constable & Company, 1814 |
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Aberdeenshire abounds acres agriculture apple arable land Argyleshire artificial grasses Banffshire barley bearer Berwickshire bolls breadth breed Caithness cattle chiefly clay climate Clydesdale coast considerable corn cottages crop cultivated district Earl east East Lothian English acres espalier expense extent farm farmers feet fertile fields Frith fruit grain ground heir hills horses husbandry improvement inches infeftment Inverness-shire island isle labour lakes landlord larch late Leadington lease lime Loch Lothian Mainland miles broad miles long mountains nearly oats old turf Orkney parish pasture pear Perth Perthshire Pippin plantations plants plough possession potatoes produce proportion proprietor quantity remarkable rent river roof Roxburghshire Scotch Scotland Scots seed seisin Selkirkshire sheep shire side situated soil sown square miles Stirlingshire superior teinds tenant theſe tillage tion tree turnips walls wheat whole Wigton winter wood
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Page 491 - Up to the height of twelve hundred feet, larch are planted, and grow luxuriantly, where the Scotch fir, formerly considered the hardiest tree of the north, cannot rear its head. In considerable tracts, where fragments of shivered rocks are strewed so thick, that vegetation scarcely meets the eye, the larch puts out as strong and vigorous shoots as are to be found in the valleys below, or in the most sheltered situations.
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Page 491 - ... finest trees standing, and received one hundred guineas for the twenty trees taken out, being at the rate of two shillings per foot. The largest of the twenty trees measured one hundred and five feet in length, five feet eleven inches in girth at four feet from the ground, and contained ninety-four square feet of timber. One tree measured one hundred and six feet; two, one hundred and seven ; and one, one hundred and nine feet in length ; but, being drawn up by standing too close, did not contain...
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