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owing to extreme mismanagement, as has been already noticedin the Fourteenth Chapter. The Spanish sheep introduced intothese Islands by Mr Malcolm Laing shall be noticed in a subse-quent article of this Appendix.
3. Horses .—The horses now generally used in Orkney appearto be descended from those in the Northern counties of Scotland .The common Custom is to bring them from Caithness or Suther-land when a year old, and to sell a part of them again at reduc-ed prices to the same people as they advance in years.
4. The Swine are different from those of the other parts of Scot-land ; of a small size, generally of a black or reddish colour,and of bad shapes. Their flesh is much esteemed for its delicacyand flavour. In summer they are sent to the hills; and in winterthey roam at large over the arable land, and are very mischiev-ous in both situations.
Rabbits are very plentiful in most of these Islands . From theStatistical Account of the parish of Stromness , it appears thatno fewer than 36,000 rabbit-skins were shipped at that port in1792. Poultry of all kinds are reared every where in Orkney ,geese in particular. From the port just mentioned, 4424 lib. offeathers, 240 smoked geese, and ten barrels of salted geese,were exported in the same year. There are no bee-hives inthese Islands .
Chap. XIV. App. No. 2.
Some Particulars of an extensive Dairy at Willowbankjnear Glasgow .
Collected from the Communications of Mr IIabley, the Proprietor.
The commencement of this Dairy arose from an incidental cir-cumstance. The proprietor had erected an extensive establish-ment of hot and cold baths, (which were much wanted by thecommunity, none having been in the city of Glasgow before),»nd some invalids who attended them, expressed a wish to havewarm milk after the bath.
fhe proprietor sent one of the cows from his villa to be milk-ed at the baths. This was no sooner known, than there was acrowd from the city waiting for the milking of the cow, whichled to inquiries, the result of which was, that Glasgow (as wellas many other towns) had a scanty supply of new milk, the qua-"ty inferior, and the dealers had no fixed measure to sell by. Iewas therefore deemed of great importance to increase the quan-of milk, and at the same time to give the quality genuine ,by a standard measure. As the projector had an extensiyeM 2