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Monday 29th September Breakfasted at 6 o’clock and rode 15 miles to Scremerston, taking my son with me, to inspect the Farms & fill up the Tillage Book for that Estate. Was engaged till 5 in the evening in examining & valuing the very extensive Farm occupied by Mr Thomson, in which I found a greater quantity of inferior Land, than I had anticipated. Tuesday 30th Set out again at 6 oclock & went over Mr Hogarths Farm, looked at the only Quarry from which it seems a Stone can be found sufficiently durable for the use of the Colliery, in which a good deal of Arching is wanted underground for the Coal drift, but to continue to work this Quarry, it will be necessary to alter a part of the Lane leading along the edge of it to the Turnpike Road, & to lay the Road on the other side, a sketch of which, with an estimate of the cost, I have desired Major Johnson’s Clerk to make and forward to me. It will be obtained without any loss to the Tenant, as he will get more land included in his Field from the broken ground on the other side, than will be taken off. Rode to Berwick & took an evening Coach to Edinburgh.
