text:  It has been calculated by a most eminent authority that every acre in the strath is capable of rearing twenty head of cattle; and as has been ascertained after a careful admeasurement that there are not less than TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND improvable acres immediately contiguous to the proposed line of Railway it may confidently be assumed that the number of cattle to be conveyed along the line will amount to FOUR MILLIONS annually which at the lowest estimate would yield a revenue larger in proportion to the capital subscribed than that of any Railway as yet completed within the United Kingdom