An account of the improvements on the estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland : with remarks. Pt.1, Sutherland / by James Loch.
- James Loch
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the improvements on the estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland : with remarks. Pt.1, Sutherland / by James Loch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[63] caught, to supply their tables; and no exportation from the country was heard of by us, except some tons of kelp from the southern shore, and a few droves of lean kyloes annually sent to the south country markets. Morayshire is by no means a well improved country. I think it is now, generally speaking, far behind Suther- land as now peopled. But at that time Sutherland seemed a century behind it—a circumstance imputable as well to the difficulty of access into Sutherland, as to the difference of language and customs; and, to the im- possibility of any stranger settling in Sutherland, getting forward among a people so constituted, with any thing like industry. As the sea shore shewed, plainly, the limestone, on which the country rested, and the rents were not at all in proportion to those drawn from inferior land in Morayshire, Mr. Falconer found very little difficulty in tempting me to embark with Culmaily farm, calculated at 300 Scots acres, which (with the pasture in the mountain behind into the bargain) he offered meat25.s. per acre with an advance at 6^ per cent, of 1500/. to assist in the improvement. At this time nothing could have led me to believe that in the short space of ten years, I shoidd see in such a country roads made in every direction ; the mail coach daily driving through it, new harbours built, in one of which upwards of twenty vessels have been repeatedly seen at one time taking in cargoes for exportation ; coal, and salt, and lime, and brick works established; farm steadings every where built; fields laid off and substan- tially inclosed, capital horses employed, with south country implements of husbandry, made in Sutherland, tilling the ground secundum artem for tmmips, wheat and [d]3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24880395_0249.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
