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The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart
The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair Bart Author:John Sinclair Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: five districts of the kingdom, in regard to that great criterion of national prosperity, (where it is properly regulated and employed), increased population . ... more » 4. IMPROVEMENTS IN SCOTLAND. It would be tedious to enter into the various measures adopted for promoting the improvement of Scotland in general, by completing a statistical survey of that country,—by publishing reports of the agricultural state of every district in it,—by the establishment of a society for the improvement of British wool,—and by being the means of procuring parliamentary grants for constructing roads, and erecting harbours, in various parts of the country, under commissioners specially appointed for that purpose. A sense of the advantages derived from these exertions, appears to have been so generally felt, that, at different public meetings, the thanks of the following twenty, out of the thirty- three counties in Scotland, were voted to me: List of the several Counties in Scotland, where the Freeholders and Landowners, at their Michaelmas Head Courts, an. 1814, returned their thanks to the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart, for his public services. Aberdeen Caithness Elgin Kirkeudbright Argyle Clackmannan Fife Perth Ayr Cromarty Forfar Ross Banff Dumharton Haddington Selkirk 5. Berwick 10. Dumfries 1.'. Inverness 20. Sutherland. 5. IMPROVEMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, AND ON THE CONTINENT. Having succeeded in obtaining the establishment of a Board of Agriculture, and being nominated its President, I was thence enabled to promote the improvement, not only of Eng- The increase in some of the counties was at the rate of 1 and 2 per cent,, but Caithness was the only district in the kingdom, where it amounted to W per eent. The West Riding of Yorkshire,...« less