The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 17W. Creech, 1796 - Scotland |
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... industry and improvement of the farmer . There are a few dealers in cattle in the parish , who keep grafs parks , and drive their fed cattle to Falkirk , or to England . — There are now no fheep in the parish . A few were kept to ...
... industry and improvement of the farmer . There are a few dealers in cattle in the parish , who keep grafs parks , and drive their fed cattle to Falkirk , or to England . — There are now no fheep in the parish . A few were kept to ...
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... industry and improvement . However , according to the prefent mode of farming , fome fort of fervices may be abfolutely neceffary . Although unlimited fervices are wearing out by degrees , yet they are ftill continued in fundry respects ...
... industry and improvement . However , according to the prefent mode of farming , fome fort of fervices may be abfolutely neceffary . Although unlimited fervices are wearing out by degrees , yet they are ftill continued in fundry respects ...
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... industry and im- provements in agriculture . - There are by far too many whisky houses in the parish , which is a great incitement to the lower claffes of people , to hurt their health and morals , and to confume their time and ...
... industry and im- provements in agriculture . - There are by far too many whisky houses in the parish , which is a great incitement to the lower claffes of people , to hurt their health and morals , and to confume their time and ...
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... industry , and to the honeft pride , which ought to be cherished in the loweft claffes , of eating their own bread . When any , how- ever , below that age , are in diftrefs , they never fail to receive a proper fupply ; and the fum ...
... industry , and to the honeft pride , which ought to be cherished in the loweft claffes , of eating their own bread . When any , how- ever , below that age , are in diftrefs , they never fail to receive a proper fupply ; and the fum ...
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... industry and of wealth . - The distant hills of Dundaff , on the fouth - weft , ( ftill the property of the defcendants of that gallant hero who broke the Roman barrier ) , the hills of Fal- kirk on the fouth , famous for the bloody ...
... industry and of wealth . - The distant hills of Dundaff , on the fouth - weft , ( ftill the property of the defcendants of that gallant hero who broke the Roman barrier ) , the hills of Fal- kirk on the fouth , famous for the bloody ...
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Page 174 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grafs, to grow upon a fpot of ground where only one grew before, would deferve better of mankind, and do more cflential fervice to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 117 - Some are found resembling the sunflower, some the hundred-leaved rose, but the greater number bear the likeness of the poppy. The colours differ as much as the form. Sometimes the animal flower is of a deep 'purple, frequently of a rose colour, but mostly of a light red or fleshy hue. The...
Page 459 - ... twelve feet from either edge. Under the bridge, (which is sixty or seventy yards from the lake), the current failed, and the bed of the river appeared where there had been eighteen inches of water. During the whole time that this phaenomenon was observed, the weather was calm.
Page 459 - I have not heard (although I have made particular inquiry) that any motion of the earth was felt in this neighbourhood, or that the agitation of the water was observed any where but about the village of Kenmore.
Page 609 - Hills, where the scenes of this pastoral poem are laid, the seat of Mr. Forbes, and the resort of many of the literati at that time, I well remember to have heard Ramsay recite, as his own production, different scenes of the Gentle Shepherd, particularly the two first, before it was printed.
Page 610 - Kisses with easy whirles the bord'ring grass. We'll end our washing while the morning's cool ; And when the day grows het, we'll to the pool, There wash oursells ; 'tis healthfu' now in May, And sweetly cauler on sae warm a day.
Page 458 - ... rose in the form of a great wave, to the height of five feet above the ordinary level, leaving the bottom of the bay dry, to the distance of between 90 and 100 yards from its natural boundary.
Page 459 - At the same time that the undulation was observed in the bay on the south side of the village, the river on the north was seen to run back ; the weeds at the bottom, •which before pointed with the stream, received a contrary direction, and its channel was left dry about twelve feet from either edge.
Page 378 - When mad people were brought to be dipped in the saint's pool, it was necessary to perform certain ceremonies, in which there was a mixture of Druidism and Popery. After remaining all night in the chapel bound with ropes, the bell was set upon their head with great solemnity.
Page 81 - IDs. 6d. Account of the Life and Writings of Hugh Blair, DD one of the Minifters of Edinburgh, &c. By John Hill, LL. D. 8vo. 6s. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home, of Kames, one of the Senators of the College of Juftice, and one of the Lords Commiffioners of Judiciary in Scotland.