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- He's mentioned in 'A Treatise on Sheep' by Ambrose Blacklock. 12th ed. 1853
source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38189/38189-h/38189-h.htm
About seventy years ago, improvements also commenced in Scotland. Till then, in many parishes, no farmer could keep sheep through the winter, and no place was reckoned so fatal to these animals as the undrained, and unsheltered parish of Eskdale-Muir, in Dumfriesshire. At last one William Bryden rented the farm of Aberlosk, and soon, by the original plan of draining, and building stone enclosures, made it, to use the words of his able biographer, Mr Scot of Selkirkshire, "like the land of Goshen, good for cattle which it is to this day."
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Mentioned in Blackwoods magazine vol 21, Jan 1827, publ. in Edinburgh ...
William Bryden of Aberlosk was : another very singular man, but an age later than the heroes of whom we have been treating ; he was the first who introduced the draining of sheep pasture, which has proved of such benefit to this country; but in all other things he made a point of letting them remain as God made them. He castrated no males, weaned no lambs, and baptized no children.
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