to been kept, the average of deaths annually cannot be a fcertained. Agriculture, &c.-The annual produce of the parish 19800 2970 4 IO O 80600 8000 40 2 S. 20 4 S. Potatoes, 200 180 IS. 9 39300 3 3 Sown O O O O O O O O o OOO 1500 450 1837 10 312 10 36 100 15 о 500 10240 acres. Total val. ann. prod. L. 18241 ́ 0 15 The parish not only fupplies the inhabitants with provifions, but exports confiderable quantities to the English markets, and fometimes to Clyde. The annual exports of the parish may be nearly as follows: 1000 350 Swine fatted, and fold at L. 3, 1050 ö 350 Black cattle, of 2 years old, at L. 2, 700 0 190 Calves, fatted and fold at 15 s. 80 Cows, fold at L. 6, 200 Cart load of hay, at 20s. 200 Fish uncertain, but may be estimated at 450 Total value of annual exports, L. 7820 0 The Stock of the Parish may be as follows: 1250 2860 O 792 40 O 240 1045 37 10 600 O 80 0 0 L. 9344 10 Imports. Imports. At Sarkfoot are imported annually,, 3000 tons of coals from Cumberland, at 6 s.. L. 900 120 Tons of falt from Pittenweem, at L. 6 320 200 Tons of flate from Lancashire and Wales, at L. 1, 12 s. the ton, Total annual value of imports, L. 10190 The annual produce of this parish has been greatly increased of late years, by the improvements which have been made, as the feveral proprietors have exerted themfelves with a laudable emulation in the melioration of their respective estates. The arable lands are all inclosed at the expense of the landlord, and the ftone-fences and hedges, which are in a thriving condition, are upheld by the tenants. Several of the farms are in a very high state of cultivation, and the reft are daily improving. It is believed, that the rental of the parish has been tripled in the course of the last 25 years. The manure used here is dung and lime, brought from the Donkin's lime-works, in the parish of Middlebie, or from Haymuir, in the parish of Kirkpatrick, and fometimes from the hollows, in the parish of Cannobie. The price the bushel at Donkin's is 11 d. and at the other places 7 d. or 8 d. This difference in the price, is owing to the difference of the prices of the coals ufed in burning the limeftone. The farmers here use the English English or Rotheram plough only, with the curved moldboard. It is drawn by two horfes, without a driver, and commonly ploughs about an acre a-day. The rotation of cropping, in general, is, first year, wheat or oats; fecond year, oats; third year, turnip or potatoes; fourth year, barley, fown out with clover and rye-grafs. The land, fown out in this manner, is usually mown for one year, then paftured two years, and afterwards ploughed, and undergoes the fame rotation of crops. The parish is the property of 4 heritors, the Earl of Hopetoun, Earl of Mansfield, Sir William Maxwell of Springkell, Bart. and Mr Graham of Mofsknow; none of whom reside. No part of the parish is commonty. Every proprietor knows the precise limits of his estate. The farms in this district are in general of small extent. There is, however, one farm let at and another at L. 186. All the rest are confider300, ably smaller. The land here lets from 5 s. to 20 s. the L. acre Stipend, Prices, Wages, Expenfes, Earnings, &c.-The average price of wheat is 5 s. 6 d. of barley, 2 s. 8 d. and of oats 2s. the Winchefter bushel. Meal is from 1 s. 6 d. to 2 s. the stone of 17 lb. The present average price of beef and veal, is 34 d. the Ib; of mutton and lamb, 31⁄2 d. and,of pork 4 d. the lb. of 16 ounces. A turkey is fold at 3 s. a goofe at 2 s. 6 d. a hen at 8 d. a duck at 8d. cheese at 3 d. and butter at 6 d. the lb. of 16 ounces. The prices of provifions of all kinds are greatly increased of late years. The farmers here live lèfs on butter and cheese, than they seem to have done formerly. They think that they find an advantage in felling these articles, and in buying butcher-meat. There is an exceedingly good flesh-market in the village of Graitney Green, where upwards of L. 700 worth of butcher-meat of all kinds, and of the best qualities, is killed and fold annually, the greatest part of which is consumed in this parish and neighbourhood. In confequence of our vicinity to England, as in other bordering parishes, wages and the price of labour are generally high, as many of the young people of both sexes go into Cumberland, where a male fervant can have from L, 8 to L. 12 and upwards, and a fe male Stipend, School, Poor. The ftipend is L. 760 Scots, including L. 60 Scots for communion-elements, and 5 chalders of victual, two thirds of which are payable in meal, and the other third in bear, amounting, communibus annis, to about L. 120 Sterling. The glebe is but small, and lies at the distance of more than two miles from the church, which renders it lefs valuable to the minifter. In the 1789 and 1790, the church and offices were all new built, and the manse repaired at a confiderable expense. Lord Mansfield is patron. There is in the parish one schoolmafter only, who has a falary of 100 merks Scots. This, and the fchool-wages, including an house and garden, may amount to about L. 26 Sterling annually. The school-houfe, and the house in which the fchoolmafter refides, were both built not many years ago, and are at present in excellent 3 repair. male fervant from L. 4 to L. 6 yearly, and sometimes for the spring and harvest quarters, a stout young man will get from L. 3, 10 s. to L. 4, 10 s. especially in the autumn. It is believed that the wages of labouring servants are nearly the fame in this diftrict. From Candlemas to Martinmas the wages of a day-labourer are I s. 2 d. without victuals, and 8 d. with them, and in the winter quarter, they are I s. without victuals, and 6 d. with them. Men and women have only 8 d. a-day for reaping, when their provifions are furnished them, and 1 s. 2 d. when they furnish their own provisions. Tradefmen, fuch as masons and joiners, have 1 s. 8 d. aday without, and i s. 2 d. with meat, bricklayers and flaters, 2 s. 6 đ. tailors 8 d. with, and I ́s. 2 d. without their victuals. But all these generally work by the piece. With these wages, the industrious tradesman and labourer fupport their families in a pretty decent and comfortable manner, if fickness, bad weather, &c. prevent them not from following their respective employments. A labourer's annual earnings may be as follows : 7 s. a-week for the fummer and harvest quarters, 6s. a-week for the winter and fpring quarters, L. 9 2 7 16 о |