...and Villages — by facUiating Communication through different-part* of the Highlands of Scotland hy .Roads and Bridges— advancing Agriculture and .extending Fisheries — introducing useful Trades and "Manufacture* — and, 'by an exertion to unite the efforts of the Proprietors, and call the attention...

...condition of their inhabitants, the means of their improvement by establishing towns and villages, roads, and bridges, advancing agriculture and extending...manufactures, and by an exertion to unite the efforts of the landlords, and to coll the attention of Government towards the encouragement of these useful purposes....

...by the Society was sanctioned at a meeting of all the members held in 1785. These objects were — (1.) An inquiry into the present state of the Highlands...and prosecution of these beneficial purposes. (3.) A proper attention to the preservation of the language, poetry, and music of the Highlands. In 1787...

...was the Highland and Agricultural Society, which in 1784 had been established for three purposes — "(1) An inquiry into the present state of the Highlands...and prosecution of these beneficial purposes. (3) A proper attention to the preservation of the language, poetry, and music of the Highlands." This Society,...

...condition of their inhabitants; the means of their improvement by establishing towns and villages, roads and bridges, advancing agriculture and extending...manufactures, and by an exertion to unite the efforts of the landlords, and to call the attention of Government towards the encouragement and promotion of these...

...Highland and Agricultural Society was formed in Edinburgh, with the view of encouraging the improvements of the Highlands of Scotland by roads and bridges,...fisheries, introducing useful trades and manufactures. Burns, in his Highland tour, describes the then state of the mountain districts, in a letter to his...