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Leiter from William Adam, E/q. to the Preſident of the Board of 4'gricultare,
reſpeeting the Plantations and other Improvements of the Eſtate of Blair, in the County of Kinroſi.
DEAR SIR;"7 x London, 2o01h November 1794.
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Ix compliance with your requeſt, I fit down to have the pleaſure of communicating to you ſome particulars reſpeCing the plantations and other improvements of the eſtate of Blair, which, if you think they can at all tend to promote the important ob- je&s of the Board of Agriculture, may either be incorporated into Dr. Coventry's Agricultural Account of Kinroſs-ſhire, or annexed to it by way of Appendix. In deed, had it not been for the ſuggeſtion of Mr. Kent of Fulham, whoſe capacity, and intelligence reſpeding all ſubjects of improvement, ſtand too high to need any en- comium from me, I ſhould not have thought my obſervations worthy of recording. Happening to mention them to him in converſation, he ſaid, that they ſhould be ſent to the Board of Agriculture; fince it is by perſons communicating their obſerva-
tions where they are likely to be preſerved, that knowledge. upon ſuch ſubjeCts is accumulated, and improvements promoted.
Situation,&c.=-The eſtate of Blair lies ten miles north of the Frith of Forth. The great road from Edinburgh to Perth paſes through it for about one mile and a quarter; a[mall part of the eſtate, v/z. 262 acres(Scotch meaſure), Iying on the eaſt, and 3050 acres on the weſt of the road. That part of the eſtate which is to the eaſt of it, is in a low flat ſituation, and wholly arable: but the other and larger portion partakes ſomewhat of the nature of a hill-eſtate; eſpecially the weſtmoſt extremity, which forms a part of the Clieſh-hills, and is on their eaſtern boundary. This weſtern and hilly diviſion confifts of ſome ground covered with heath, of green rocky hills, of banzs and meadows very fit for paſture. About the centre ofthe eſtate, -?here are many rocky eminences, and fields ſuited for paſture, but too ſteep for the
A. plough.