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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![[66] pose; and those on the shores were the sub-tenants of gentlemen whose style of education and pursuits, through life, made them quite indifferent to the treasures spread out before them. On inspecting the grounds possessed by Atkinson and Marshall, the new stock-farmers, and comparing the condition of these with that of the grounds pared for turf, &c. in the occupation of the inhabitants, and on viewing the condition of the plants, trees and living creatures on the former farm, and contrasting it with the filth of the native huts, and the lean and miserable con- dition of every horse, cow, and sheep possessed by them, I was at once a convert to the principle now almost universally acted on in the highlands of Scotland, viz. that the people should be employed in securing the na- tural riches of the sea coast; that the mildew of the in- terior should be allowed to fall upon grass, and not upon corn; and that the several hundred miles of Alpine plants, flourishing in these districts, in curious succession, at all seasons, and out of the reach of any thing hut sheep, be converted into wool and mutton for the English manufacturer. Let any person, I don’t care who he be, or what his prejudices. Let him view the inside of one of the new fishermen’s stone cots in Loth—the man and his wife and young children weaving them nets around their winter fire. Let him contrast it with the sloth, and poverty, and filth, and sleep of an unremoved tenant’s turf hut in the interior. Let him inspect the people, stock, cattle, horses, trees, and plants, in a stock farmer s possession, and compare it with the pared bot- tom from which turf in all ages had been taken, with the plosely cropped roots of grass, and bushes and miserable](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24880395_0252.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
