“The land held in common was of vast extent. In truth, the arable, the cultivated land of Scotland, the land early appropriated, and held by charter, is a narrow strip of the riverbank, or beside the sea. The inland, the upland, the moor, the mountain, were really not occupied at all for agricultural purposes, or served only to keep the poor and their cattle from starving.” ScotlandCommon LandMoorlandArable LandCultivated Land Book:Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquities Source: Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquities