Note 408 — Chapter VII · ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.
Reading edition
The account of Scotland in the Essay, Bk. II. ch. x., is taken from the Statistical Account of Sir John Sinclair, 1791–99. Sinclair was acting, on the south side of the Tweed, as President of the Board of Agriculture. See below, Bk. II. ch. i. p. 218.