The Highland Note-Book; or, Sketches and Anecdotes
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ISBN13: 9780217084147
Paperback|9780217084147
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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: and able to write and cypher before they enter the works. The children employed in the works, from nine to thirteen years of age, most, according to the factory act, work only eight hours per day, and about three hours are devoted to the school-room. The number at this age amounts to one hundred, and they are divided into relays of thirty-three each; so that while two relays are at work, one is attending school. The youth above thirteen years of age, and under sixteen, are expected to attend an evening school four nights in the week; and a Sabbath school in the village contains about one hundred and fifty pupils. Thus, the works at Deanston seem to possess every facility and recommendation?they have changed the aspect of the country, beautiful and romantic as it is, by introducing into it habits of industry, order, and the highest mechanical genius and dexterity?they cause a circulation of money to the extent of about .20,000 per annum?they furnish employment for the people of all ages?they have called forth the spirit and activity of the agriculturists to meet the ever-recurring demands of the place?and, in all respects, they are a splendid monument of British enterprise, skill, and perseverance. BI.AIB-DRUMMOND MOSS. We next went to see Mr Home Drummond's extensive improvements on his estate near Doune. His grandfather, the celebrated Lord Kaimes, set the first example of agricultural improvement, on a large scale, in this country. He commenced burning, paring, planting, draining, and manuring, in a manner which made his neighbours stare and shake their heads, and with as much eagerness as if he had nothing else to attend to; yet he was a lord of session, a philosopher, and an author. The great improvement has been in Blair-Drnmmond Moss, a tract of low-lying land, extend...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217084147 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217084141 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 234 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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