Excerpt from Some Considerations on the Present State of Scotland: In a Letter to the Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures Gain expected was the T enzptation that drew the Traders into this villanous Projeft; and a Di/lihe to the Union, an ill Opinion conceived of the full Sett of Cuf'tomhoufe-officers that were fent down hither, an Unwillingnefs to favour the Revenue, on a Suppofal that the Money thence arifing was to be remitted to England, and Partiality to their uh happy Countrymen who were dipt in this Trade, together with fmail Bounties and Prefents recel ved from the Smuggler, drew the Bulk of the People in, to favour them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.