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not only in the improved appearance of the country, but inits climate, and productions pf every description. That sucha beneficial alteration is possible, is clearly demonstrated, bywhat has been already effected in many districts, equally lia-ble to doubts and objections as those which still remain open.
To succeed in a work so truly great, requires thp most cor-rect and enlarged views, which must he gradually extendedand followed out, so as to make returns as they advance, andto enable the landholders to proceed regularly to their fulfil-ment. By this progressive means, the increasing capital andpopulation of the .country, will b.e employed steadily and ju-diciously in the labour of improvement, and the work, and themeans of its advancement, will go on steadily and regularly,the recompence following the labour, and inciting to new ex-ertions, by the hopes of additional profit.
To such a progressive and regularly digested plan, of judi-cious and profitable inclosure, improvement and embellish-ment, no competent objection occurs. It would admirablyaccord with the growing opulence and population of Scotland ,and with her increasing demand for the productions of thesoil. Facts are demonstrative of the high improvement thathas been effected, even in the value of mountain pastures, un-der such a plan, and of their increasing returns of produceand profit, at a diminished rate of expence and risk. Thebenefits derivable from the barren waste, when clothed in■wood by means of inclosure, are most important under a va-riety of considerations, that do not require to be enumerated,being so extremely obvious. And when crops of grain, andother useful productions, make their appearance, in placeswhich were formerly moors and wildernesses, even the mostsuperficial observer must be struck by the beneficial change.
No country in Europe has derived, or is likely to reap,more numerous or more important advantages, from judici-ous inclosures, than Scotland . They are and must be usefulin the highest degree, to improve her soil and climate, and toaugment and ameliorate her various production?. They form