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ON INCLOSING LAND.

the most profitable source of employment and subsistence forher increasing population ; and they may render her, at thesame time, more productive, and more attractive, to her opu-lent landholders.

Now that inclosed lands have become of great value, orrather that their value has become better known and un-derstood, and that by increased and increasing capital andpopulation, the means of augmenting inclosures is daily be-coming more efficient; it may be observed, that what is nowmost wanted in Scotland , is that intelligence in devising, ac-cording to circumstances and situation, and that vigour inexecuting plans of inclosure, so necessary to the interests oflandholders, but which many of them so unaccountably over-look.