AND

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

HIGHLAND SOCIETY

OF

SCOTLAND.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
SOCIETY FROM NOVEMBER 1820 TO DECEMBER 1823.

VOL. VI.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHD. CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH;

AND HURST, ROBINSON & CO, LONDON.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION, Containing an Account of the principal

Proceedings of the Society from November 1820 to

December 1823,

Page

ix-lxi

ESSAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS.

RAIL-ROADS, Essays on, edited by ROBERT STEVENSON,

Esq. Civil Engineer,

1-146

(See particular Contents prefixed to the article.)

SALT, Experiments with, as a Manure, and in the Feed-

ing of Live Stock,

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147-183

I. Report by Mr ANDREW ROBERTSON, Farmer at

Myrehead, near Linlithgow,

147-165

II. Report of Experiments in the County of Aber-

deen, by Mr THRIFT SCOTT,

165-6

IRRIGATION, Essay on the Theory of, by Mr JAMES LIND-

SAY, Land-surveyor at Murdieston, Lanarkshire, 184-214

FOREST-TREES, on Sowing the Seeds of;-from an Essay

on the subject by Mr JOSEPH UDNY, Moffat, 215-220

DRILLED and BROADCAST WHEAT-Comparative Experi-

ments on the Sowing of Wheat by Drilling and by

Broadcast.

By Mr JOHN LAWSON, at Old Mills in the County

of Moray,

221-228

FIORIN GRASS.-Report and Certificate of Fiorin Grass

cultivated in Argyleshire.

By Mr DONALD MACCOLL at Lettershuna, Appin, 229-231

Notice respecting Calves which were reared chiefly on

Fiorin Tea.

In a Communication from Sir JAMES STEWART

DENHAM of Coltness, Bart.

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232-234

COMMUNICATIONS from Mr WILLIAM POPE, at Gartymore,

near Helmsdale, County of Sutherland;

1st, On the Farina of Potatoes, and the means of

Preserving them,

235-237

2d, Preparation recommended for the Destruction of

Vermin, and the Pickling of Seed-Wheat, 237-240

DRAINING. On the Draining of Lochcoat Loch.

241-246

By PATRICK WISHART, Esq. of Lochcoat,

On the Draining of Moss or Bog lands, containing

notices of Improvements executed, 1st, By Mr

COSMO FALCONER of Hartwoodhill, in the Parish

of Shotts: 2d, By Mr ANDREW ROBERTSON, Te-

nant in Myrehead, County of Stirling: 3d, By

Mr ALEXANDER CALDER, Tenant in Starland,

County of Linlithgow,

247-250

KELP.-On Improving the Quality of Kelp, with Dr

FYFE'S Analyses of Specimens,
251-257

PLANTATIONS.-Notices of Experiments made in the High-

lands and Isles, by Lord MACDONALD, COLIN MAC-

KENZIE, Esq., H. MACDONALD BUCHANAN, Esq., and

Sir JAMES COLQUHOUN of Luss, Bart.

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258-260

DAIRY-HUSBANDRY, Notices of, in the Counties of Lin-

lithgow, Renfrew, and Dunbarton,

261-263

DRIFT-SAND.-Report of Experiments in reclaiming Drift

or Blowing Sand, and converting the Land into useful

permanent Pasture, made by ALEXANDER N. MAC-