Queries concerning the north of Scotland

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An extended essay, with annotations in a different hand, on the improvement of northern Scotland, hampered presently for want of sufficient information. Discussions centre on the following: the need for a proper census, with special respect to military resources, inclinations to particular industries (and the price of labour), emigration, and increase; arable land; manures; cattle; woods; fossils, meaning minerals and coal; mines; fisheries, especially concerning river salmon, and cod and herring, and whether private fleets are well advised; wool; linen; a lesser miscellany, including production of kelp products and barrel staves. Finally, a natural history should be the grand object of attention. (Approximately 169 handwritten pages).

• Natural Resources

• Walker | John | 1731-1803 | professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman

• Scotland