OF SCOTLAND.

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TABLE (E.)

The prices of piece-work in some other counties mighthave been given, but the proportion they bear to the above,corresponds so exactly to the rates of day’s wages given in aformer table (B), that it is unnecessary to insert them here. Infact, it is physically impossible, even for the person contract-ing to do piece-work, in digging drains by the rood, or spread-ing dung or earth or compost by the load, to say what wagesper day he is to make, unless he knew the sort of soil, andsize of the load, distance to be spread abroad, and a varietyof other particulars.

SECT. III.

OF COTTAGES ATTACHED TO FARMS.

Besides the various labourers already described, trades-men, such as weavers, shoemakers, carpenters, tailors, ma-sons, &c. &c. are frequently found, who undertake to providea reaper during harvest, by way of rent, for whose work theyonly receive their victuals, and certain perquisites attachedto their cottages, as a small patch of ground for a garden,about the twentieth part of an acre sown with flax •, what ashesand dung they can collect, carried out to manure some