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blic, a complete and accurate Survey of the County might have been finiſhed;-- but I am diſappointed. The beſt pradical engineer(acting as a ſurveyor) in the iſland, reſides at Stirling 3; I mean Captain JouN WIiL- 50N, whoſe talents are much beyond my Draue."EHEe was perfedly willing to engage in this work; for which purpoſe I ſet on foot a ſabſcription. Several proprietors put their names to it in a Very liberal manner; yet(O backward has the greateſt part of the perſons intereſted

been, that I dare ſay, at this moment, not one-third of

the ſum neceſlary to ſet this uſeful work a-golng, has

been ſigned for. I wifh the Lairds wou'd awake from their Qumbers, and conſider the importance of the un-

dertaking.

The want of an explanatory ſketch will be nowhere more ſeverely felt than in reviewing the“ ſtate of agri- « culture of the county of Stirling:*? In no fituation was it perhaps ſo neceſlary to delineate and diſtinguiſh the various ſolls. Carſe, Dry field, Green päſture, Dry moors, and Peat-moſſes, are the diviſions which ought to be marked; but this I have not dared to do, for the rea:

fon above ſtated.

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