The observing farmer's travels through Scotland, : with his remarks on the country, and observations on the improvement of agriculture. : Likewise suggestions for the improvement of farm stocking, and effectual cures for the diseases of cattle, sheep, and horses / By P. Finlayson.

  • Finlayson, P.
Date:
1834
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The observing farmer's travels through Scotland, : with his remarks on the country, and observations on the improvement of agriculture. : Likewise suggestions for the improvement of farm stocking, and effectual cures for the diseases of cattle, sheep, and horses / By P. Finlayson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    33/332 (page 27)
    little to be seen on the ground of the field of battle, though it is still visited by many. The simple cottagers take care to supply, at a good price, a relic or some fragment of armour, which they pretend they have lately found. Some of the graves of those who fell are easily distin- guished by their verdant surface of grass rising among the surrounding heath. Elgin is bounded on the east by the river Spey; on the west by Nairn and part of Loch- aber ; on the south by Aberdeen and Badenoch ; and on the north, by the Murray frith. This county enjoys a mildness and serenity of climate superior to any other part of Scotland. It is, however, mountainous, and a great part of it better fitted for pasturage than corn ; yet, a con- siderable proportion of Morayshire yields good crops, and has the harvest remarkably early. Its divisions are Moray and Strathspey; the prin- cipal towns Elgin and Forres. Some miles be- low Forres, there is as good land as can be met with in any country, and well farmed, and a very diligent laborious people. The country in gen- eral is of a dry soil, and part of the people, re- sembling the soil and climate,—a little dry hair- ed likewise. There are hills of sand on the es- tate of Cobon, at the month of Findhorn : the people said, they were four or five miles long, but I did not think they were so long. The ground on both sides of them is level, and they are blown up to a great height, and the sand clear and sparkling: it would run through a time glass. 11