The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, KincardineW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 |
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Aberlemno agriculture Airlie amount ANGUS AND MEARNS annual appears arable Arbroath attended average number banks barley belonging bolls Bolshan Brechin built burgh castle chalders chapel chiefly Clova considerable crop cultivated distance district Dundee Dunnichen Earl east erected Established church extent farm feet females Finhaven Forfar former glebe grass ground heritors hill husbandry I.-TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL imperial acres improvement inhabitants Inverkeilor Kinnettles Kirriemuir labour land late loch Loch of Kinnordy Lord Panmure Lunan manse manufactures miles minister Montrose nearly neighbourhood number of families number of persons Oathlaw oats Ogilvy parish parish church Parochial Registers pasture planted poor population potatoes PRESBYTERY present proprietor quarries rent residence rish river rocks sandstone Scotch Scotland Sir James Carnegie situated soil St Vigeans stipend stone Strathmore SYNOD OF ANGUS Tannadice tion town turnips upwards V.-PAROCHIAL ECONOMY village wheat wood
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