NLM the population in the year 1755 and the preſent, wall appear from the following Katiſtical table:

Pariſhes« In 1755- In 1797- Kinroſs,-- 1310 8 A0020 Orwell,-- TT 1750 Portmoak,=-"278 692 653 Cleiſh,-- 996 1105 Part of. the county;.,=, 680* 600*

Total, 5428 5947

By the above Catiſtical ſtatement, it appears that there 1s an increaſe of 519 inhabitants ſince the year 1755- There are 36,433 acres of land in the county, which comes to about

>. acres to each individual. This diſproportion will not ap- pear to be ſo great, if 12,000 acres of waſtes, or land not arable, are dedudtted; and it is probable that even a greater quantity of uncultivated land remains in the county, were It properly aſcertained,;|

Eccleſiaſtical State of the County.--Religion, in Scotland, can hardly be conſidered, even by the moſt prejudiced perſon, as an obſtacle or impediment to agriculture. The mode of public worſhip is fimple and ünperplexing. Having extreme- 1y few holidays, the huſbandman is not, by ſuperſtition, forced from the neceſſary labours of the field; and the einds, or ſupport of the clergy, being fixed annual ſalaries, are almoſt nothing in compariſon of Zithes in ſome other counties, and eſpecially the manner in which theſe tithes are colle&ed.

The ſtipends or livings of the eſtabliſhed clergy in the county, including their glebes, amount to about 5201. Ster-

. ling * From copje&ture, the accounts not being given in the ſtatiſtical hiſ- tories of theſe pariſhes.