TO

Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart.

PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD, 8&&c.&c.&c.

YOU are diſpleaſed, my good Friend, that I have not brought forward the Stirlingſhire Report ſomewhat ear- ier.-L believe, though.I parried your duns from time to time, I never aſligned the real cauſe of delay, which

I am now about to ſerve up to you.

There is no accurate Survey of our County;--ſeveral have been made, but every one of"em incorredt, and that to a degree which is aſtoniſfhing: One whole pa- riſlh, and ſeveral large fragments of others, are marked as attached to the neighbouring ſhires. The trouble which theſe errors haye occaſioned to me, has been paſt deſcription. About three years ago, when you firf aſk'd me to undertake this taſk, I had hopes, that before

the time neceſſary for preſenting the Report to the pu- blic,