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a recent diviſion before the Sheriff, they were found to con- tain from 30* to 43+ Scotch acres each.

Moſt, if not all, of the pariſh of Muckhart, likewiſe held of the Argyle-family; and the rentallers are ſuppoſed to have been converted into feuars much about the ſame time. Both of theſe pariſhes formerly belonged to the Commenda- tor and Convent of Dunfermline.

The fize of the arable farms, in the pariſh of Logie, are but ſmall; not being, on a medium, above 403 Scotch acres. The largeſt farm poſſefled by a tenant, does not excecd 120|| Scotch acres: the ſmalleſt is about 255. There are ſome feuars who farm their poſleſlions. One or two of them, be- ſides farming their own lands, rent ſome adjacent to them: but ſtill they are but ſmall farms; the largeſt of them(in- cluding their own grounds) not exceeding 60 Y Scotch acres.

The pariſh of Alva belongs to one gentleman, who has almoſt the whole of the arable lands in his own poſieſlion.

In the pariſhes of Tillycoultry and Dollar, the farms are but ſmall; much about the ſame ſize as thoſe in Logie-pariſh. Some of the feuars in Tillycoultry,“and moſt of thoſe in Dollar, farm their own poſſeſſions.

The farms in the pariſh of Muckhart, are in general ſmall, at leaſt with reſped& to the quantity of land ſown: for . although a farm may conſiſt of 100.** or 200+ Scotch acres, the number of acres ſown will not probably exceed 30 iF, and the remainder lies in a ſtate that in Scotland is called Lying ley; i. e. land ploughed out of heart, and left to gather graſs as it beſt can. There are about 35 proprietorsz 15 of whom farm the whole, or at leaſt ſome part, of their own poſſellions. The number of tenants are about 24.

The pariſh of Glen Dovan conſiſts entirely of ſmall grazing-farms, having from 600 to 1000[ſheep in each.

* Correſponds nearly to 38 Engliſh ſtatute-acres.+ Nearly 59 E. acr. 3 Nearly 50 E. acr.|| Nearly 152 E. acr. S Nearly 31 E. acr. T Nearly 76 E. acr.** Nearly 127 E. acr.++ Nearly 254 E. acr.

3t Nearly 38 E. acr. In