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230, there was ſome copper got in the pariſh of Tillycoultry: "The cheſt-vein was about 18 inches thick: and when waſhed and dreſſed, the ore was valued at[-. 5o ſterling per ton.

"The moſt remarkable hills in the Ochills, are De Myat oy Dun Myat, or, as it is generally called, Top Myat, in the pariſh of Logie 3; and Bencleugh, in the pariſh of Tilly« coultry.

Dun Myat advances a little into the plain. The fide to the ſouth, is rocky, and almoſt perpendicular; and the height of it, according to Mr. Stobie, is 1345 feet. This hill affords a moſt remarkable bird's-eye view of the Carſes of Stirling and Falkirk, with the water of Forth wandering through them.;

Bencleugh 1s ſituated in the centre of the hills; and is the higheſt hill, not only of this diſftri&, but of all the Ochills, being, according to Mr. Stobie, 2450 feet in height. It is, towards the ſouth, covered, almoſt to the very ſummit, with fine graſs. The proſpect from it is very fine, and moſt ex- tenſive, as no height intervenes, even to the German ocean z and the country it overlooks, is in general pretty fertile, and tolerably well cultivated.

Craiginnan-hill, in the pariſh of Dollar, is reputed to produce 25 fine ſheep-paſture as can be found in the whole range of the Ochill-hills.

"The low grounds Iying along the fide of the Forth, are generally included as part of the Carſe of Stirling, well known for its great fertility. Theſe lands form the fine Part of the fore-ground of the celebrated view from the caſtle of Stirling. That part of the Carſe which lies on the banks of the water of Allan, extends to the north about a mile, when it is ſuddenly cut oft by a gravelly bank riſing very quickly, and which loſes iſelf at laſt in the Ochills. At the eaſt end of this bank, there is a remarkable ſtratum of rock, of the baſalties kind, which projets very much into the Carſe, towards the water of Forth, from which it is

diſtant only about 2 furlongs, owing to a large bend which the