The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 1 |
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... confiderable difficulty , unless the Clergy in general will do , what many of them have very fuccefsfully executed , name- by , tranfmit their accounts prepared for immediate publication . Answers to the Queries , however , which have ...
... confiderable difficulty , unless the Clergy in general will do , what many of them have very fuccefsfully executed , name- by , tranfmit their accounts prepared for immediate publication . Answers to the Queries , however , which have ...
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... confiderable , being about thirteen miles long , and in fome places not less than fix or seven miles broad : But the figure is irregular , being fre- quently interfected by the parishes of Oxnam and Southdean . It is bounded by ...
... confiderable , being about thirteen miles long , and in fome places not less than fix or seven miles broad : But the figure is irregular , being fre- quently interfected by the parishes of Oxnam and Southdean . It is bounded by ...
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... confiderable number ( about a hundred ) of fmaller proprietors , called here Portioners , from their having a fmall portion of land belonging to them . Of the greater proprietors , eight , either occafionally , or conftantly , refide in ...
... confiderable number ( about a hundred ) of fmaller proprietors , called here Portioners , from their having a fmall portion of land belonging to them . Of the greater proprietors , eight , either occafionally , or conftantly , refide in ...
Page 10
... confiderable quantity of peafe , a few beans , a great quan- tity of clover and rye - grafs , are sown in this parish ; but little flax or hemp , excepting fome for private ufe . Oats are fown from the beginning of March to the end of ...
... confiderable quantity of peafe , a few beans , a great quan- tity of clover and rye - grafs , are sown in this parish ; but little flax or hemp , excepting fome for private ufe . Oats are fown from the beginning of March to the end of ...
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... confiderable quantities to Lothian and Tweedale . Orchards . A great quantity of pears grow in the gardens or orchards of the town of Jedburgh . The trees , though very old , are remarkably fruitful ; and it is calculated that the value ...
... confiderable quantities to Lothian and Tweedale . Orchards . A great quantity of pears grow in the gardens or orchards of the town of Jedburgh . The trees , though very old , are remarkably fruitful ; and it is calculated that the value ...
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