. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. e of Sutherland, owing to its vicinity to theocean, and to its being consider d> y intersected bj arms of thesea, and much more moderate than this latter district, it wasfairly concluded that this county was even better titled for thissystem of management than the heights of Perthshire amiInverness-shire. The inferior elevation ot* its mountains
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. e of Sutherland, owing to its vicinity to theocean, and to its being consider d> y intersected bj arms of thesea, and much more moderate than this latter district, it wasfairly concluded that this county was even better titled for thissystem of management than the heights of Perthshire amiInverness-shire. The inferior elevation ot* its mountains con-tributed still further to this effect, and held out every encour-agement to adopt the same course which had been pursuedwith such success in both parts of the kingdom. The propriety of converting the mountainous parts of the countyinto sheep-walks was in this wav rendered evident, provided thepeople could be at the same time settled in situations, where,by th_- ex Tcise of their honest industry, they could obtain adecent livelihood, and add to the general mass of nationalwealth, and where they should not be exposed to the recurrenceof those privations, which so frequently and so terribly afflictedthem, when situated among the The principle of providing for the lover class of tenants hy theestablishment of fisheries was thus derived : — It had long beenknown, that the coast of Sutherland abounded with manydifferent kinds of fish, not only sufficient for the consumptionof the county, but affording also a supply, to any extent, formore distant markets, or for exportation when cured andsalted, liesides the regular and continual supply of white fi^h,with which the shores thus abound, the coast of Sutherland isannually visited by one of those vast shoals of hertings whichfrequent the coast of Scot- settle there. Such is the policy of Lord Staffords opera -tions, in which he has expendd, and continues to ex-pend, independently of the cost of improvements on themansi
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