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I should hardly have
ventured to have troubled the world with this publication, had I not
flattered my self with the idea, that any person who will take the
trouble of perusing the following Essays; will, on the whole, be
inclined to say, “This is the work of an Author who seems to have
directed his attention to subjects connected with public utility and
national improvement, and whose favourite object was, not to have lived
in vain."
London,
19th May 1802
Contents
ESSAY I.
Observations on the Nature and Advantages of Statistical Inquiries; with
a Sketch of an Introduction to the proposed Analysis of the Statistical
Account of Scotland.
Essay II.
Observations on the Means of enabling a Cottager to keep a Cow, by the
Produce of a small Portion of Arable Land.
Essay III.
Hints as to the Advantages of old Pastures, and on the conversion of
Grass Lands into Tillage.
Essay IV.
Hints regarding Cattle.
Essay V.
On the Improvement of British Wool; containing the substance of an
Address to a Society, constituted at Edinburgh for that purpose, on
Monday, January 31, 1791.
Essay VI.
Address to the Board of Agriculture, on the Cultivation and Improvement
of the Waste Lands of the Kingdom, presented to the Board by Sir John
Sinclair, (then President,) on the 17th November, 1795.
Essay VII.
Substance of a Speech in a Committee of the whole House, on the Means of
improving the System of Private Bills of Inclosure, and the Resolutions
of the Select Committee upon that Subject.
Essay VIII.
Hints regarding certain Measures calculated to improve an extensive
Property, more especially applicable to an Estate in the Northern Parts
of Scotland.
Essay IX.
Account of the Origin of the Board of Agriculture, and its Progress for
three years after its Establishment, originally drawn up, an. 1796.
Essay X.
Proposals for establishing by Subscription a new Institution, to be
called The Plough; or Joint Stock Farming and Experimental Society, for
Ascertaining the Principles of Agricultural Improvement.
Essay XI.
Letter to the Proprietor of an Extensive Property, on the Means of
promoting the Comfort, and improving the Situation, of the People in his
Neighbourhood.
Essay XII.
On Longevity.
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