Excerpt from The Beauties of Scotland, Vol. 4: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures, of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &C, of Each County

'f'd' eow-houses are placed opposite to the ham, and the dung h - v-w is thrown into the space between the barn and the stables. There are few of the small farmers who have any fod dering yards. The fatm-betises and cfliees were formerly covered with an alternate layer of thatch and turf, called divot. Of late they are generally covered with pan-tiles. They have a more agreeable appearance than the old thatch-roofs; but there are many inconveniences attend. Ing them, especially in a county subject to high winds; which often uncover large spaces of the roof, and break a great quantity of tiles. They are extremely cold in win. Ter, and excessively warm in summer. In short, they make an unpleasant and expensive covering for any kind of buildings; but as the first cost of them is eonsikrahly less than a slate roof, tiles are come into general use. Ah attempt has heen made to mingle tiles with thatch of wheat-straw, to prevent their being broken by the winds, and to save, at the same time, the expense of pointing the tiles with lime; but the efiect of the eontriranoe is not yet known. In a severe climate like that of Scot. Land, it seems probable that, where a slated roof cannot be afl'orded, no covering will he found more unexeeption. Able than that which we formerly mentioned as used in some quarters of Airshire, consisting of a mixture of straw and lime, by which a sort of tams is formed of a durable nature, and preserving that degree of warmth which is so requisite in our unsteady climate. The old custom of paring the surface of the moors to produce turf for covering the cottages is most truly barbarous, as it leaves the Izod, during a long period, in a state of abso.

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