General View of the Agriculture of Renfrewshire: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement; and an Account of Its Commerce and Manufactures. Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement |
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16 March 5th January act of parliament agriculture alum amount annual annum assessment average avoirdupois barley Berwickshire boll Cart Cathcart chiefly city of Glasgow Clyde coal consequence considerable cotton counties of Scotland crop cultivation district division dung Eaglesham Eastwood employed English acres Erskine estates expense extent farm farmers feet funds Gourock grain grass Greenock ground Gryfe heritors horses Hurlet important improvement inches Inchinnan increased inhabitants Innerkip John Kilbarchan Kilmalcolm labour land late lime Lochwinnoch looms Lord manufacture manure March Mearns merchants miles mills moss Neilston oats Paisley parish parish of Paisley pasture period persons poor population Port-Glasgow potatoes present produce proprietors quantity Renfrewshire rent revenue river river Clyde RIVER GRYFE roads royal burgh Scots acres sheep shire silk gauze Statistical account teinds tenants thread tion town of Paisley trade vessels White-Cart Winchester bushel yearly
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Page 27 - The city of Glasgow, till very lately, was perfectly tantalized with its river: the water was shallow, the channel much too wide for the usual quantity of water that flowed down, and the navigation interrupted by twelve remarkable shoals. The second inconveniency continually increased by the wearing away of the banks, caused by the prevalency of the south-west winds that blow here, and often with much violence, during more than half the year: thus what is got in breadth, is lost in depth; and shoals...
Page 241 - Bargarran, a few families in the neighbourhood engaged in the same business, and continued in it for a number of years. It was not to be expected, however, that a manufacture of that kind could be confined to so small a district, or would be allowed to remain in so few hands for a great length of time. The secrets of the business were gradually divulged by apprentices and assistants.
Page 241 - Having acquired a remarkable dexterity in spinning fine yarn, she conceived the idea of manufacturing it into thread. Her first attempts in this way were necessarily on a small scale. She executed almost every part of the process with her own hands, and bleached her materials on a large slate placed in one of the windows of the house.
Page 97 - ... deserving our regard than those who have transplanted into the colder gardens of the North the rich fruits, the beautiful flowers, and the succulent pulse and roots of more favoured spots; and carrying into their own country, as it were, another Nature, they have, as old Gerard well expresses it, 'laboured with the soil to make it fit for the plants, and with the plants to make them delight in the soil.
Page 240 - Bargarran, then about 1 1 years of age. A short account of this trial may be seen in Arnot's Collection of Criminal Trials. * " Three men and four women were condemned to death, as guilty of the crime of Witchcraft, and were executed at Paisley...
Page 163 - During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Page 241 - Bath, and disposed of it advantageously to some manufacturers of lace ; and this was, probably, the first thread made in Scotland that had crossed the Tweed. About this time, a person who was connected with the family, happening to be in Holland, found means to learn the secrets of the thread manufacture, which was then carried on to...
Page 241 - Bargarren ; and by means of it they were enabled to conduct their manufacture with more regularity, and to a greater extent. The young women in the neighbourhood were taught to spin fine yarn ; twining mills were erected ; correspondences were established ; and a profitable business was carried on. Bargarren thread became extensively known ; and being ascertained by a stamp, bore a good price.
Page 247 - Country explained ;" the purport of which was to warn the nation of the bad consequences which would result from the rivalry of the East India cotton goods, which then began to be poured into the market in increased quantities, and at diminished prices.
Page 150 - Scotland six coach horses, originally from Flanders, and sent them to Strathaven, the castle of which was, at that time, habitable. The horses were all stallions, of a black colour^ and remarkably handsome. The farmers in the neighbourhood, .readily embracing the favourable opportunity, crofsed this foreign breed with the common Scotch kind, and thereby procured a breed superior to either.