FARMS.

The Carſe-lands, which are all arable, are ſubdivided intd farms from about 15 to 1009 acres each, but from 30 to 49 are moſt common. Farms in the higher parts of the coun- €y are from 20 to 1009 Acres, of which there is commonly a mixture of rough wet Jand that 15 paſtured only. Almoſt univerſally the farms are occupied by the perſons who rent them. met with an ſeveral parts, and, in the old language of the

Small poſſellions from 2 to 20: acres are to be

country, are Mill denominated pendzcles. The occupiers of them are in general day-labourers, who gain their livelihbood by working for the neighbouring farmers, or upon the high roads. Many of them are alſo in the poſſellion of manu« faturers or mechanics for the accommodation of their fami- lies, and afford a healthful and profitable avocation from ſe- dentary or leſs adve employments.

RENT.

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The valued rent of the county is L. 108,000 Scots, th& veal rent may be*conceived to be about L. 95,900 Sterling. The eſtates run from about L. 8200 Sterling to L. 60 of cent. The land in tbe vicinity of towns and villages rents from 40 5- to 75 3- Pe?" acrEe. Carſe-lands are the bigheſt let in tillage farms, and generally bring from 205. to 545- Per acre Scotch. The average is about 37 5- A ſmall portion of Carſe-lands has been lately rented as high as L. 3 per acre 1ipon a leaſe of nineteen years. The great riſe of rents began about twenty-ſe ven years a80 3 but improvements, 2 few years after, received a conſiderable check, which conti- nued during the American war; at the concluſion of which, agriculture again revived, and, in the courſe of the laſt ten years, has in this place been carried to a pitch beyond all

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