[65] Scott Elliot, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. 18, p. 243.
[66] Used to make billiard balls.
[67] Kipling.
[68] As the story probably differs in detail for every district, the author is obliged to confine himself to ground which he has actually seen and studied.
[69] Mr. Chisholm, Geographical Journal, November, 1897.
[70] Sir H. Maxwell, Memories of the Months, First Series.
[71] This may of course have been an exaggeration, a sort of joke. But he had no right to make jokes on such a subject.
[72] Mr. John Murray, of Murraythwaite, referring probably to 1780, from Singer, Agricultural Survey of Dumfriesshire, 1812.
[73] The agricultural rents in Dumfriesshire were valued in 1656 at £13,225, in 1790-1800 as £109,700, in 1808 £219,037 10s. 8d. In 1905 the value per acre was from £1 to £2.
[74] Warming, Lehrbuch der Œcol Pfl. Geog.