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APPENDIX
CHAPTER XI.
No. I.
of the Extent of waste land in Scotland .
It would certainly be desirable to know, not only the total ex-tent of waste land in every different county of Scotland , but alsohow much of that waste is capable of being cultivated ; andwhat proportion it bears to the land now under improved culti-vation. Such information, however, cannot be easily obtained :even the most intelligent Reporters on the rural economy of thedifferent counties, have been able to do no more, than to formconjectures on that subject. Indeed it is impossible to state theamount, in any degree approaching to accuracy, unless actualsurveys were made, not only of every county, but of every estate*and of every farm within the kingdom. The transition fromcultivated soil of the best quality, to ground absolutely sterile,and to every intermediate stage between fertility and barrenness,is so frequent, and proceeds by such insensible gradations, thatit becomes extremely difficult to draw the line between each kind,or to exhibit any accurate statement of the extent of every dis-tinct quality of soil.
On the whole, the following Table of the fertile and cultivat-ed, and of the uncultivated lands of Scotland , is perhaps as near
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