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Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman)

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Queries concerning the north of Scotland, c1770

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Identifier: Coll-205/4/1 (Dc.2.36)
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: c1770

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