STIRLINGSHIRE.

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SITUATION AND EXTENT.

ÖÖITIRLING,(anciently Stryveling or Striveling) 18 ſitua- ted from 559% 56/ to 569 16/ north latitude, and from 3% 30' to 4% 14/ weſt longitude. It is bounded on the north by Perthſhire; on the eaſt by Linlithgowſhire; on the ſouth by the counties of Lanark and Dunbarton; which laſt alſo bounds it on the weſt. The greateſt length from eaſt to weſt is about 49 miles; and the greateſt breadth from ſouth to north 23; but the medium length may be 44, and breadth 16 miles. According fo this calculation it contains 704 ſquare miles, being 4 50,560 acres Engliſh, or 358,336 acres Scotch, the only land meaſure uſed in the county.

The general appearance is greatly diverſified by rivers, mountains, woods and vallies, variouſly arranged, and ex- hibiting, in many ftriking points of light, a great number of views extremely pleaſing and piureſque. The variety 25 well as the richneßs of the proſpe&, is not a little 1in- ereaſed by ancient towns and proſpering villages appearing, in various forms, amidſt fertile fields; their buſtling ſcenes making an agreeable contraſt with the more tranquil ope- rations of huſbandry.

The county is ſubdivided into the following pariſhes, vz. Buchanan, Drymen, Kippen, Gargunnock, Balfrone, Killearn, Fintry, Campfie, Strathblane, Baldernock, New Kilpatrick, Denny, St Ninijan's, Stirling, Kilſyth, Falkirk, Slamanan, Muiravonſide, Polmont, Bothkennar, Airth, Larbert and Dunnipace, Logie, Lecropt, Alva. Part,-how- ever, of a few of theſe, as Kippen and New Kilpatrick,

belong to other counties.

B RIVERS.

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