The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 20W. Creech, 1798 |
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Aberdeen acres alfo almoſt alſo annually Auchterarder Banff barley befides beſt Biſhop bolls Caftle Caithness Caſtle cattle church circumftance Clergy coaft confequence confiderable courſe crops diſtance diſtrict ditto Doune Duke of Atholl Dumfries Dunkeld Edinburgh eſtabliſhed expence fame farmers farms feems fent feveral fide Fife fince firſt fiſh fituation fmall foil fome foon Forfar fouth ftill ftones fuch fufficient fummer fupply grafs ground Haddington heritors horſes houſes improvement increaſe induſtry inhabitants intereft Inverness Kilmadock Kirkcudbright labour laft Lanark land laſt late Linlithgow meaſure Meigle merks miles minifter moſt muſt neceffary obfervations occafion Orkney parish perfons Perth population Prefbytery prefent proprietors purpoſe raiſed reaſon refidence refpectable rent river ſchool Scotland Scots ſeems ſeveral ſhould Sir John Sinclair ſmall ſome ſpirit St Andrews ſtate Statiſtical Account Sterling ſtill ſtone ſuch tenants thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Thurfo tion town Urquhart uſe weft Wigton
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