Volume 3

The statistical account of Scotland. : Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes / By Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

  • Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
Date:
1791-1799
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Credit: The statistical account of Scotland. : Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes / By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wealth or ftock of the inhabitants, and how it can be augmented—the difeafes to which the people are fubjeft, their caufes and their cure—the occupations of the people—where they are entitled to encourage- ment, and where they ought to be fupprelTed—the condition of the poor, the befl: mode of maintaining them, and of giving them employment—the ftate of fchools, and other inftitutions, formed for purpofes of public utility—the ftate of the villages and townsj and the regulations beft calculated for their police and good government—the ftate of the manners, the morals, and the religious principles of the people^ and the means by which their temporal and eternal interefts can beft be promoted* Impreffed with thefe ideas, in the month of May 1790, I circulated amongft the clergy of the Church of Scot- land, a number of Queries, for the purpofe of elucidat- ing the political ftate of my native country. Nothing could be more flattering than the reception they met with, from that learned and refpedtable body. Scot- land is divided into about 950 parochial diftrifts; an'dj in lefs than eighteen months, reports were received from above one half of that number. The returns that were tranfmitted, alfo, were not trifling or fui- perficial; but, in general, fuch as might be expedled from men of extenfive knowledge, and of found abilities, acquainted with the various topics to which their attention was direded. With fo much zeal, indeed, have they entered into this inquiry, that, ia lefs than three or four years from its commence- ment^
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