THE

STATISTICAL ACCOUNT

OF

SCOTLAN D.

"

THE

STATISTICAL ACCOUNT

OF

SCOTLAND.

DRAWN UP FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS

OF THE

MINISTERS

OF THE

DIFFERENT PARISHES.

BY SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART.

VOLUME NINTH.

Ad confilium de republica dandum, caput eft nosse rempublicam."

CICERO, de Orat. lib. ii.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY WILLIAM CREECH;

AND ALSO SOLD BY Į. DONALDSON, A. GUTHRIE, AND JO. AND JA.
FAIRBAIRN, EDINBURGH; T. CADELL, J. DEBRETT, AND J.
SEWEL, LONDON; DUNLOP AND WILSON, GLASGOW;
ANGUS AND SON, ABERDEEN.

M.DCC,XCIII.

No. Name. Population in 1755. in 1791-3. Increase.

Decr. Page.

This feems to be exaggerated, as Mr Keith fays the number in 1750 was only 1302.

+This, for the reafons affigned by Mr Gillies, feems to be exaggerated.

Mr Maxwell does not ascertain the precife number; but as he mentions that the town of Stewartown "has increased fome hundreds, fince he was fettled," (which was in 1758) population in 1793 is probably rather above than below

the

3000.