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ford,&8c. Theſe are of great advantage to agriculture, by affording a ready market for many of the more bulky arti- cles of the dairy and the field; and by furniſhing a ſufficient number of labourers for country-work at all.ſeaſons of the year. The county is beautiied with many gentlemens ſeats, ſurrounded by regular and well drefßfed incloſures. Many places are diftinguiſbed by. the remains of no ſmall antiquity, and others are rendered famous by being the ſcenes of many memorable adions, which proved the valour and. ſecured the independence of the Scottiſh nation. Here the vi&orious Romans, by means of the forts of Agricola and wall of Antoninus, thought proper to fix the north- ern limits of their conqueſts in Britain. Conſfiderable remains of the wall and military roads, in ſeveral pla- ges of the county, attraft the notice of attentive travel. lers. Theſe inconteſtable marks of the power of the Ro« man arms are, however, in many places yielding to the de- ſtroying influence of all-devouring time, or are giving place to the more uſeful improvements of agriculture and civili- zed ſociety.“ The fites of ſome of the ſtrong fortrefles of “ the Romans, are, by the power of arts, more amiable than “« thoſe of war, converted into well cultivated fields and & proſpering villas*."*

ESTATES.

The capital eſtates in the ſhire are thoſe of Mr Forbes of Callander, his Grace the Duke of Montroſe, Sir Archibald Edmonſtone, and Lord Dundas. The inferior ones are pretty numerous, and ſome of them of conſiderable extent. A great number of feuars ypon ſmall properties are inter« mixed in many parts of the country.

FARMS. * Nimmo's Hiſt. of Stirlingſhire, p. 25.