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and that ſeed time and harveſt are as early here as in any of the neighbouring diſtritts.

Lochs.--Lochleven, on the banks of which, at its up- per and weſtern extremity, ſands the town of Kinroſs, 1s a noble expanſe of freſh water, about 15 miles in circum- ference, and covering or including within its margin 2 ſurface of about 3308 acres. From this number, however, muſt be dedudtted the area of the Inch, or St. Serf's iſland, conſiſting of about 36 acres; and likewiſe the area of the iſland, con- taining the ruins of a caſtle, once belonging to the Douglaſſes of Lochleven, and formerly uſed as a Kate priſon. Beſides, there muſt be included the area of two ſmall ſpots of ground in the loch, conſiſting of about two acres. The extent of the loch muſt vary ſomewhat in different ſeaſons. The ſurface of its water has been obſerved to ſink 2 feet 54 inches below a particular mark, on a ſtake driven into the ground; and it has been found to riſe 83 inches above that mark; ſo that the loweſt fall, and the higheſt riſe of the ſurface of the loch, may be eſtimated to be about three feet, although it is pro- bable, that, in particular and rare occaſions, as after heavy rains, or ſudden thaws of the winter ſnow, it may have riſen much higher than this number of inches.

There are ſome intereſting and curious particulars re ſpecting Lochleven, and the noted caſtle in which Mary Queen of Scots was confined, which might deſerve ſome no« tice 3; but all antiquarian diſquiſitions, hiſtorical narrations, and details in natural hiſtory, that have not ſome reference to rural economy, the proper ſubje& of the preſent inquiry, muſt be omitted. Some information on the above particu- lars may be colle&ed, from the accounts given of the pariſheg pf Portmoak and Kinroſs, in the Statiſtical Account of Scots

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