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L. 3 and L. 4, and, in some cases, L. 5 per Scotch acre* orirom 24 s. to L. 4 per English acre. In Selkirkshire, from24 s. to L. 2 :12 :6. In the interior parts of Dumfries-shire,it is only 20 s.; but from L. 3 to L. 5 near the towns, insmall lots. In Wigton and Kirkcudbright , it varies from 16 s.to L. 3 per acre, according to its quality and situation. Themountain pasture is not valued by its extent* but by thenumber of sheep which a farm maintains * and three acresat an average may support two sheep.

In the 3d district* (though exposed to all the disadvantagesof a wet climate), from the great demand for the produce ofthe soil, the rent of the arable land is much higher than inthe second ; and with only one-thirteenth part of the extent*it yields above a sixth part of the whole land-rent of Scotland .Its gross rental is about L. 820,000, which is nearly 22 shil-lings for every arable, and four shillings for every uncultiva-ted English acre. But in recent leases, arable land, in Ayr-shire, is from L. 1 for poor land, to L.5, and sometimes toL. 8. Near Glasgow and Paisley, the arable land and also richpastures rent at from L. 4 to L. 9 per Scotch acre. In Dum-bartonshire the rent for arable land is from 10 to 35 shillingsper acre. In this district, in favourable situations, for tempo-rary pillage,. land has rented as high as L. 8, and even L. 12per Scotch acre, but the mountain pasture is only at from 2to 4 shillings per acre.

In the 4th district, which contains nearly two-thirteenthparts of the extent of Scotland , the whole rent is one-thirdpart more than that of the first district, or L 1,350,000}but in this sum is included the rent of the carses of Falkirk and Gowrie, and the fertile valleys of Fife , Clackmannan,Kinross, Stirling, Perth , and Forfarshires, as well as ofthe extensive, but uncultivated Grampians , and othermountains; which are as barren as the others are fer-tile. In Fifeshire , the arable lands are from L. 2 to L. 5per acre. In Kinross-shire, from 15 shillings to L. 3. InClackmannanshire, from L. 4 to L. 5. In Stirlingshire, from