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quantities of it are raiſed, both for family uſe and for the market. This article has, for a long time, deſervedly merit-

ed the attention of the public 3; and it has been of an incal- culable benefit to thoſe parts of the country, where its culti- vation and manufa&ture haye been eſtablifhed. It affords many ſtrong inducements to the female part of the commu- nity to be aCtive and thrifty. It leads them to employ, with great advantage, every moment of their time, which can be ſpared at home, from the neceſſary buſineſs of the farm; and wholly preſerves them from that ſauntering and indolent life which is the diſgrace and inconceivable loſs of many diſtricts in the iſland. Women in this county, from 11 or 12 years of age to almoſt the lateſt period of life, are much employed in ſpinning linen yarn, and making webs, part of which clothes the family, and part is ſold to defray the expence of weaving,&c. By this cleanly and eaſy employment, many, who by frailty or old age are totally unfit for the rugged la- bours of the field, or indeed for any part of huſbandry work, are enabled to gain a livelihood, or at leaſt ſo much as makes them, if reduced to poverty, a. very light burden to ſociety. Many counties in England might account it one of the great- eſt bleſlings, were their females, like thoſe in Kinroſsſhire, and moſt other places in Scotland, employed in raiſing and preparing lint, and ſpinning it into yarn. Soon may heaven- born INDUSTRY, always enjoying a cheerful and healthy countenance, engage in her honeſt and comely train all ranks and deſcriptions of mankind, that thereby ſqualid Jrdolence, with her meagre and beggarly attendants, be denied:an en-

trance into the habitations of mortals! The quantity of each kind of crop in the county, and the proportion which it has to the reſt, may be eſtimated from ; the

nearer that the common or vulgar names of plants and animals approach te

the ſcientific names now ſo juſtly eſtabliſhed, ſo much the better.