Land-owners.-There are eighteen landed proprietors, all of them non-resident, except three. The Earl of Zetland holds considerably more than one-third of the parish ; and the family has been always distinguished as liberal and indulgent to their tenantry. During the French revolutionary war, they let their lands at L.5, 5s per acre, but never exacted more than L.4, and every year gave the tenants a full discharge. The other principal proprietors are, Henry Stainton, Esq. of Gairdoch; Colonel Dundas of Carron hall; and John Walker Ogilvie, Esq. of Orchardhead. The remainder of the parish is held by others, to the extent of from two to sixty acres each.