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16 SUTHERLAND ESTATE MANAGEMENT: CORRESPONDENCE
that I may be Acquainted what yearly Rent is Asked for Coimafarn,
what Rent for the Forrest of Clibrigg, and what yearly Rent for the
Grasing of Ballachcuisny, together with the Additional Rent for the
places I have already in Tack that I may acquaint my Sons accordingly.
I begg Leave to observe to your Lordship, that since Whitsunday
1764, when the late Earl of Sutherland of Amiable and illustrious
Memory executed a general Sett of his Estate, I paid -£20 Sterling
of yearly Rent for Coirnafam untill the 1793, when it was taken
from me at a Deduction only of ^15 Sterling. No doubt it is worth
much more this day, from the Advanced price on every highland
Commodity, still the Farmer must be allowed to live by his
Industry, otherwise, he must in a Course of years diminish his own
private Funds.
I begg Leave further to observe, That if it is found more Eligible
for your Lordship’s Interest to continue the Hill of Clibrigg as a
Deer Forrest, my Sons will take Coimafam, and the other Places
abovementioned, without it. I say they will take Coirnafarn at
Whitsunday next, and give a Suitable Rent, because the local
Situation makes that Grasing more convenient to the Farm I now
possess, than to any other one whatever.
Let me further observe that if the Hill of Clibrigg is Let, the
little place of Rhihalvigg should be Sett on the Same Tenent at it’s
value, because that place marches with the Forrest for about 2
measured miles. As to the Tack of Clibrigg it will Sett with, or
without a Connection with the foresaid Forrest, in Regard, Strath-
bausty1 the principal part of it is much detached, or at a distance
from the Forrest which Major Campbell has seen. It is to be wished
the Major Saw the whole Estate, especially the Highlands, and in
particular the Strath of Naver, as I am persuaded he is capable of
forming a Judicious Idea of the whole.
If I live to Martinmas next, I pay the 49th Rent, as I begann
young; All this time, I had the Happiness to live on the most
Friendly Terms, with the family of Sutherland and their Managers,
which I desire and hope will be the Case in my day, and it will be
my Request to my Sons to cultivate and mantain the Same Attach¬
ment, which my Predecessors mantained for some Hundred years
under various Tenures from the Same Noble Family.
1 Strath Vagastie.