Notes and Sketches [I]llustrative of Northern Rural Life in the Eighteenth Century epub
Notes and Sketches [I]llustrative of Northern Rural Life in the Eighteenth Century epub
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Author: William Alexander
Page Count: 72 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d20eq91zdmkqd.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/3413/9781341320743.jpg
ISBN: 9781232366942
File Name: Notes.and.Sketches.[I]llustrative.of.Northern.Rural.Life.in.the.Eighteenth.Century.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...practice of husbandry will probably be spread everywhere, and nothing will remain to be learned." The Commissioners reasoned soundly concerning the expediency of their course; and as we have already seen, they were not altogether singular in their mistaken anticipation of the time when "nothing will remain to be learned" in agriculture. We shall not follow Mr. Wight in his agricultural details; nor indeed follow him closely at all; but simply endeavour to obtain from him a few glimpses of the rural life of the time as it presented itself to the eye of an intelligent stranger. On his third survey, he visited the county of Kincardine, of which he says--"I am sorry to observe that agriculture in this county makes little figure, except among a few patriotic gentlemen." Various of the more prominent of these he had visited, but time did not admit of his coming on to Aberdeen. And a considerable while after he records, at second-hand, a particular impression concerning the husbandry of three local counties, viz., the observation that had been made by a gentleman, when travelling through Angus, Mearns, and Aberdeenshire--" Many enclosures he saw fenced with dry stones, some new, some decayed, and some tumbling down; but not a gap made up, nor the slightest reparation on any of them. This surprised him. To be at the expense of building fences, and yet never to think of keeping them in repair, appeared unaccountable. But at last he discovered the cause; for, upon looking back he remembered that in every one of these enclosures there was corn as well as grass." In point of fact, "inclosing," as known to the farmers of the time, was simply a delusion and a snare. It did not partition off the pastures from the cereal and oth...
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Notes and Sketches [I]llustrative of Northern Rural Life in the Eighteenth Century. William Alexander
Author: William Alexander
Page Count: 72 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d20eq91zdmkqd.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/3413/9781341320743.jpg
ISBN: 9781232366942
File Name: Notes.and.Sketches.[I]llustrative.of.Northern.Rural.Life.in.the.Eighteenth.Century.pdf
Download Link: Notes and Sketches [I]llustrative of Northern Rural Life in the Eighteenth Century
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...practice of husbandry will probably be spread everywhere, and nothing will remain to be learned." The Commissioners reasoned soundly concerning the expediency of their course; and as we have already seen, they were not altogether singular in their mistaken anticipation of the time when "nothing will remain to be learned" in agriculture. We shall not follow Mr. Wight in his agricultural details; nor indeed follow him closely at all; but simply endeavour to obtain from him a few glimpses of the rural life of the time as it presented itself to the eye of an intelligent stranger. On his third survey, he visited the county of Kincardine, of which he says--"I am sorry to observe that agriculture in this county makes little figure, except among a few patriotic gentlemen." Various of the more prominent of these he had visited, but time did not admit of his coming on to Aberdeen. And a considerable while after he records, at second-hand, a particular impression concerning the husbandry of three local counties, viz., the observation that had been made by a gentleman, when travelling through Angus, Mearns, and Aberdeenshire--" Many enclosures he saw fenced with dry stones, some new, some decayed, and some tumbling down; but not a gap made up, nor the slightest reparation on any of them. This surprised him. To be at the expense of building fences, and yet never to think of keeping them in repair, appeared unaccountable. But at last he discovered the cause; for, upon looking back he remembered that in every one of these enclosures there was corn as well as grass." In point of fact, "inclosing," as known to the farmers of the time, was simply a delusion and a snare. It did not partition off the pastures from the cereal and oth...
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