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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
The Critical Review Or Annals of Literature Author:Tobias George Smollett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the two quarto volumes, in one volume oftavo, it would pre feat to die general reader a well-authenticated account of the war described. The Staliftical Accou... more »nt of Scotland. Drawn up frsm the Communications of the Aiinijiers of the different Parijhcs. By Sir John Sinclair Bart. Vols. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. and xiii. Svo. Voh. vni. ix. x. Ts.—xi. xn. xiif. 8i. each in Boards. Cadell. 1794. THIS voluminous work, though apparently not yet half completed, has already fwelled to a fize far exceeding the editor's expectation. But its future utility muft be thence proportionably encreafed ; and, in the mean time, the reader enjoys an extent and variety of local information, fuch at hitherto, in any country, has never been , fubmitted to the public. Equally avoiding minute detail and uninterefliug brevity, we fhall proceed, upon the plan adopted in reviewing the former volumes, to mention thofc particulars .which appear to be moft worthy of obfervation. In the pariih of Dornoch, the firft in the volumes now. before us, the populatiou, it is fuppofed, has increafcd within the laft thirty years, to the extent of at leaft five hundred. This increafe, we are told, is not to be afcribed to any addition from trade or manufactures, but to the fecundity of the women, the 1'ubdivilion of farms, and the advancing culture of muir ground ; the two lull mentioned circumftanccs encouraging the people to marry young. 13y the partial introduction likewife of inoculation for the fmall-pox, and by the improved treatment of patients under that difeafe, many lives have beea favcd, and other fatal diforders prevented. Under the article of eminent men, in the parifh of Eckford, is mentioned Sir William Bonnet of Grubbet, who was born, and redded at M.nlelicld, in this diitrict, the greater pa...« less