General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr (1793)

Description

The county surveys commissioned by the young Board of Agriculture are foundation stones of British agrarian history. Colonel William Fullarton (1754-1808) reports on Ayrshire : soils, rotations, cattle, improvements and obstacles, with the candour of a practising improver. The large folding statistical table of the county is reproduced at full page.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1793 Edinburgh edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.