Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851

Those acquainted with the writings of Tull, Arthur Young, Marshall, and Elkington, must know that, although not exempt from errors, they evolved the leading principles of a right agriculture. Indeed, we would seem almost to be recovering only the lost principles and practices of the Roman farmers of old. They seem to have known the mode of manuring ground by penning sheep upon it – nay, what will astonish Mr Mechi, they practised the plan of feeding them in warm and sheltered places with sloping and carefully prepared floors, upon barley and leguminous seeds, hay, bran, and salt. They knew the advantage of a complete pulverisation of the soil, and the necessity of deep ploughing. Their drainage was deep, and if Palladius does not mislead us, they seem in certain cases to have employed earthenware or tile-drains. But to those who wish to know more of Roman husbandry, and who may not have leisure or opportunity to consult the originals, we have great pleasure in recommending Professor Ramsay's (of Glasgow) paper entitled "Agricultura," in the last edition of Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, – an admirable specimen of condensed erudition.

10

Modern State Trials: Revised and Illustrated, with Essays and Notes. By William C. Townsend, Esq., M.A., Q.C., Recorder of Macclesfield. In 2 vols. 8vo. Longman Co., 1850.

11

The duty here performed by the President of the Court is in England discharged by an officer of the Court called the Clerk of Arraigns.

12

This was subsequently altered to "claiming to be Earl of Stirling." – Swinton, p. 48.

13

Ante, p. 477 et seq.

14

Bell's Dictionary of the Law of Scotland, p. 844. In civil cases this rule is reversed. —Id. ib.

15

Alison's Practice of the Criminal Law of Scotland, p. 651.

16

Swinton, p. 196.

17

Ante, p. 470, et passim.

18

Ante, p. 474.

19

Swinton, p.309.

20

Per Lord Meadowbank, Id. ib.

21

Id., p. 84.

22

Id., p. 94.

23

Ante, p. 473.

24

Swinton, p. 205.

25

Ante.

26

Id., p. 475. Swinton, App., p. vii.

27

Ante, p. 484.

28

Swinton, p. 311. This seems a slight inaccuracy, on the part of the learned Judge, of fifty-eight instead of fifty. —Ante, p. 484.

29

Pref. p. xxi.

30

Swinton, p. 209.

31

When the precept issues in favour of a Writer to the Signet, or of the Keeper of the Signet, (as Lord Stirling then was,) the precept passes the signet gratis: and that word is written at the bottom. – Swinton, p. 84.

32

Ante, p. 470.

33

Ante, p. 483.

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