Excerpt from The Beauties of Scotland, Vol. 5: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; Of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &C. Of Each County The cultivation of wastes is here going on with much vigour. In one year a single proprietor ploughed between 500 and 600 acres of waste land, and immediately brought it under crop. A considerable proportion of the land was, till lately, held in commons; but it has been found prac ticable to divide them, by the neighbouring proprietors entering Into a bond of submission to some gentlemen of the country in whom they have confidence. One tract of 2500 acres was in this way divided at a very moderate expence and another of 4500 acres was immediately thereafter brought to division In the same form. Very extensive trials' have been made of improving the soil by paring and burning and these have been found to be at tended with great success. In this way large tracts of land, having a steril crust on the surface, generally of the nature of peat, and producing only the most coarse plants, may soon be expected to be brought at once into an ex cellent state of tillage and fertility. Some extensive im provements have also been made by draining. At the loch of Durin, in particular, a great tract of valuable land, and an inexhaustible quantity of the richest marl, have been secured by two proprietors at a moderate expence; and other undertakings of ailike nature are carrying on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.