An account of the improvements on the estate of Sutherland, belonging to the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford / [Anon].

  • James Loch
Date:
[1815]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the improvements on the estate of Sutherland, belonging to the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    borne in equal moieties by the Parliamentary CoitimiiTi- oners and the County of Sutherland,amounted to £? 13000. The latter of thefe interruptions is at prefent in the way of being removed, by the conftruCtion of a mound acrofs the Fleet, at a convenient fpot for the purpofe. This mound will extend about 1000 yards in length, with a bridge confiding of five arches fituated at one end, fitter! with valve gates to exclude the tide. The expenfe of this work is alfo borne in equal moieties by the Parliamentary Commiftioners and the County, with the additional tub- fcription of J^iOOO from the Marquis of Stafford, being the eftrmated value of the advantage which the Estate oi Sutherland is expected to derive from the execution of this work. The eftimated expenfe is £§000. Defirous of availing themfelves of thefe public works, to which, indeed, they are by law as well as by voluntary fub- fcription, the principal contributors ; and anxious to adopt every meafure which is neceffary to dimulate the induftry, and excite the exei tions of the population of their vaft eftate —the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford havecar- ried their views much further, and have left no means un¬ tried to remove the obftacles which has hitherto retarded the improvement of this diftriCf. They have, as it were, brought the means and inducement to induftry home to the doors of every one delirous and willing to avail themfelves of the opportunity thus afforded them for their improvement —and they have the fatisfaCfion of reflecting, that in all the great meafures which they have carried into effect, they have not loft one individual from their eftate becaufe he had no fettlement to go to ; ftill lefs from his not having had held out to him every inducement to be induftrious, or from his not having had placed within his reach, not merely the means of living, but alfo of greatly improving his litu- ation and condition in life. Every encouragement has been given, by granting leafes on moderate terms, and for a fufficient endurance to in¬ duce the tenants to exert themfelves in the better cultiva¬ tion of the coaft-ftde land. The confequence has been, that extenftve fields of wheat (fome of them drilled after the moft improved fyftem of Norfolk hufbandry), fevera! hundred acres of turnips fown upon the ridge, and welt horfe-hoed, with excellent crops of clover, are now feen, where
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