had them long enough to give a decided opinion, whether or not they will answer with our pafture. Ewe and lamb fell for 12s. or 145., 3 year old wedders at about the fame price, and younger sheep in proportion. The wool is, in general, coarfe, and fetches only between 7 s. and 8s. the ftone tron; 7, 8, and even 9 fleeces go to the ftonetron. What is not manufactured for the use of the inhabitants, of the wool, is fent to Perth, Stirling, and Alloa. Before sheep-farming was introduced, about 30 years ago, we had a small species of fheep with white or reddish faces, and fine wool; but these were confidered fo much inferior to the black faced kind in the fize of the carcafe (the only object attended to till of late), that the race is either adulterated or extirpated. Many of the moft fenfible fheep farmers begin to regret this, as they now perceive that the difference in the value of the wool, and in the great number of the small sheep that might be kept on the fame pafture, would more than compensate for the difference in the weight of the carcafe. Till the period above mentioned, sheep were confidered as of little value in this country. Farmers kept only as many as were sufficient to clothe their families and afford them a little mutton, as there was very little demand for either wool or mutton from other countries. There were befides, feveral circumstances in the management of sheep that prevented their thriving. They were thought fuch tender animals, that they could not be left with fafety to lie in the open air during the night in winter. Independent of this prejudice, the number of foxes rendered it a neceffary precaution to house them at night. The lambs were allowed to come too early in the feafon before the ewes had any new grafs. There was indeed no winter grass referved for them. From the middle of May they were milked every morning, the lambs being separated from them overnight, till about the end of June, when the lambs were wean

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ed. This prevented the lambs from ever coming to their full ze. The ewes continued to be milked evening and morning till the end of September, being for moft part of that time confined all night in very narrow folds. It is now believed by very judicious farmers, that the old fpecies, with the fame treatment, would prove full as hardy as the blackfaced kind, and that 5 of them at leaft might be kept on the fame grafs that is fufficient for 4 of the other.

Population. According to Dr. Webster's report, the population then was 1295. There are at present 1364 fouls in the parish, of whom 632 are males, and 720 females.

The registers of baptisms and marriages afford little information, by which one can judge of the population of the parish, as a great proportion of both marriages and baptifms are registered in the parishes of Killin and Fortingal, that belong to this parish. There is no register of burials kept, nor would it indeed be eafy, as the people in this country do not bury either in the nearest burial ground, nor in that belonging to their parish; but they always endeavour, at whatever distance, to bury with their ancestors. From an average of 20 families, taken at random, the number of children born of each marriage,

Rent, Heritors, &c.-The valued rent of the parish is 16131. Scots, the real rent about 16501. Sterling. The whole parish, except one farm belonging to Mr. Menzies of Culdares, is the property of two heritors, the Earl of Breadalbane, and Sir John Menzies of Menzies, Baronet. Sir John Menzies is patron, and has his principal refidence at Caftle Menzies in this parish, where he refides for a part of the year. It is a handfome edifice built in the form of a castle, with turrets, &c. It was built in the year 1571. The grounds around it were greatly adorned by the late Sir Robert Menzies, with gardens, plantations, and beautiful walks. It is fituated under a moft beautiful bank, which is covered with trees of various kinds, and is of confiderable length and height, having an extenfive plain in front towards the fouth, which is divided into a number of enclofures. Here are likewife 2 orchards, which yield a great quantity of apples, pears, cherries, and the fineft of geans both black and red. The Earl of Breadalbane's kitchen garden is alfo in this parif, and yields a good quantity of fruit of different kinds on the walls and efpaliers, and a great variety of vegetables for the table in high perfection.

Church, Manfe, Stipend, Scheel, Poor. The church was quilt, according to an infcription above the door, in the year 16c9, and repaired in 1752. When it was first built, and

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nearly. Tor, though in the grazing parts of the country there are undoubtedly fewer perfons, yet the increase in the lower parts, it is prefumed, at leaft compenfates for that decrcafe. There are no diffenters from the Established Church of any denomination. Servant's wages are increafed rapidly for fome years paft. In the year 1778, a man fervant got 31. and maintenance, who now gets 61. or 71.; a maid feryant's wages have riten during the fame period from 11. 1os. to 31. in the year, and all labourers and tradefmen's wages proportion.

any years afterward, it was fully fufficient to contain all the congregation that affembled to it; but fince the knowledge and practice of true religion have been more widely diffufed, the church is by much too fmall for the congrega tion, especially in the fummer months, when at least a fourth of them are obliged to fit without, the windows being thrown open, and a great many old and infirm people obliged to remain at home, who cannot venture to fit in the open air: Two-thirds at least of the congregation are from the parishes of Dull, Logierait, and Fortingal, their own parish churches being at too great a distance. The manfe was built in 1744, and had fome reparations fince, but is ftill the most inconvenient manfe in this country. The glebe is about 3 acres arable, of a good light foil, and about an acre of pasture and meadow, befides a garden of an acre. The living, exclufive of the glebe, was formerly 361. 3s. 7 d. Sterling in money, and 32 bolls, Linlithgow meafure, half oat meal, half bear. Laft fummer-feffion (1792) it was augmented to 64 bolls victual, and 661. 3s. 7 d. money, including communion elements *.-There is a fchool maintained by the heritors. The

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It was ufual for the minifters of Weem and Kenmore to officiate, the lat ter every 5th Sunday, and the former 4 times a-year, at Lawers, on the north fude of Loch Tay, where there is a pretty good chapel built by the Larls of Breadalbane. About 2 years ago, the Society for Propagating Chriftian Knowledge, out of a fund bequeathed them by the late Lady Glenorchy, for the purpofe of encouraging religion and industry on the eftate of Ereadalbane, fettled a misLonary minister, who officiates alternately at Lawers, on the north fide, and at Ardeonaig on the fouth fide of Loch Tay. The Society allow him 201. 2-year, and the Earl of Breadalbane as much, with a house and a piece of land in name of a glebe. This establishment precludes the neceflity of the minifters of Weem or Kenmore preaching at Lawers, and the minifter of Killin from preaching at Ardeonaig. The minifters of Fortingal and Weem, ftill officiate in Glenlyon, the former once in 5 or 6 weeks, the later 5 or 6 times a-year, at a place

The falary was only 61. 13 s. 4 d. Sterling, till this year (1793) that the heritors have, of their own free motion, raised it to 111. zs. 3;d. This, with school-wages, feffionclerk's fees, &c. may amount in whole to 241. There is a good fchool-houfe, fchoolmaster's dwelling-house, and a small garden *.-There are few poor in this parish, and they are, for the most part, fupported by their own industry, and occa fional fupplies from the parish funds. There are at present

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a place about 20 ftatute miles from the church at Weem. There is a good chapel built there a few years ago, by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants of that valley, and fome fmall donations from a few of the neighbouring gentlemen. The inhabitants of Glenlyon, about a fourth of whom are in this parish, have been remarkable for honesty, industry, and sobriety, for many generations, before the furrounding countries were brought to the ftate of civilization they are in at prefent. This must be attributed to two concurring caufes; It, The proprietors of this valley (the Campbells of Glenlyon) were themselves, for many defcents, men of great integrity, and encouraged fuch of their retainers only as were of the fame difpofition. 2d, A spark of religion was early kindled among them, which being, for a little time, confined to a few families, has long ago diffufed itself over the whole valley. The religion of thefe people is not of the fpeculative difputatious kind, but fuch as influences the whole of their conduct in their intercourfe with mankind.

*There are likewife 3 other fchools fupported from a fund of 6000 merks Scots, mortified for that purpofe by Mr. Archibald Campbell, first Presbyterian minifter of this parish, who was admitted about the year 1703. The intereft of that fum only, is employed according to the deed of mortification, for the maintenance of 3 fchools in the moft remote parts of the parish, i. e. 51. 11s. 1d. to each of the 3. This fum, at the time it was first given (about the year 1740) was fufficient for fupporting a lad to teach for 7 months in the year, which at that time was all that was required, as the people difperfed through the hills with their cattle in the month of May, and the schools did not convene till after the harveft was finished. Since theep farming was introduced, the people remain at home the whole year, confequently the schools would be of the fame confequence in funmer as in winter. The Society for Propagating Chriftian Knowledge, allow one of thefe fchools 51. a year (that at Roro in Glenlyon) in addition to the former falary, which enables the fchoolmaster to teach through the greatest part of the year. Thefe 3 fchoolmasters act likewife as catechifts.