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Beſides Lochleven, the county is ornaimented and enrich» ed with ſome freſh water lochs of ſmall extent. Of theſe, the pariſh of Cleiſh furmiſhes no fewer than four. They are all ſituated among the Cleiſh hills. The largeſt is about a mile and a half in circumference, and the other three much ſmaller. They abound with pike, perch, and eel, which afford amuſe-= ment to the angler: They ſupply with water, a ſmall rivulet or ſtream, that drives a few mills, which, in that patt of the country, äre of great ſervice to the inhabitänts, and conſe- quently beneficial to agriculture. This water might be uſe= fully employed in irrigating the inferior grounds, were that mode of improving and enriching paſture lands underſtood here; and it is to be hoped the period is not diſtant when agricultural improvements and exertions, will be brought to a more perfe& ſtate, in this country, than they are at pre=

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Rivers.=-Lochleven receives the waters of three ſmall ri- vers, and ſeveral ſtreamlets. Gary, the ſouthmoſt river in the county, is formed of two branches. One of them has its vrigin in the united pariſhes of Foſſaway and Tilliebole, at no great diſtance from the river Dovan 3; the other, its ſouth branch, riſes about the weſt end of Cleiſh pariſh, and eaſtern point of Foſſaway. The river, formed by the union of theſe two branches, divides the old pariſh of Tilliebole, which 13 wholly in Kinroſsſhire, from the pariſh of Cleiſh. In its courſe eaſtward, it becomes the boundary between the pariſhes of Kinroſs and Cleiſh, till, on the eaſt of Gairny bridge, on the line of the great road to Perth, it ſeparates the latter pa- riſth from a2 portion of the pariſh of Portmoak; after which it falls into Lochleven. The water of this rivulet is commonly of a dark colour 3 which circumſtance is probably owing ts its paſling through low meadow grounds, and ſoils abounding with bog and peat moſs. The lands in the pariſhes of Cleiſh

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