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;ndeed, are not quite ſo cold or moiſt as the northern-or eaſtern parts of Clackmannan.

Upon the whole, the climate of the diſtriet under ſurvey, is certainly rather moiſt. It is partly owing to this circum- ſtance, and partly to the greateſt part ofthe ſoil, that readily abſorbs, and for a long time retains moiſture, that the pre- paration of the ground for the ſeed, in the ſpring, is fre- quently ſo much interrupted, and 40 long poſtponed, that the harveſt is rendered late; a circumſtance, 4he bad con ſequences of which are tos generally known. The wheat- harveſt, however, in thoſe parts of the diſtrict where wheat is ſown, is often as early as in the Lothians: but this for- wardneſs proceeds entirely from the wheat-ſeed being ſown EATHer:

Soil.--The low grounds, in the pariſh of Logie, lying on the banks of the Forth, are very fine carſe. The lands neareſt to the hills, are not ſo fine as thoſe immediately on the banks of the river, where the ſoil appears to have been chiefly formed of mud, depoſited or collected from time to time, until it gradually aroſe higher than the ordinary level of the water; and, perhaps, this proceſs has been a little alliſted by art.

On the weſt part of the pariſh, the Carſe is cut off by a gravelly bank, covered with good loamy ſoil. There is like wiſe ſome good loam here and there in the Ochills: but, at the bottöm of theſe hills, there are ſome parts rather molly 3; the quantity, however, is very trifling. On the vorth-eaſt part of the pariſh, there is a tra€t of land, 13 miles in length, by about 3 in breadth, of a ſharp gravelly ſoil, mixed with clay. It bears a fine grain, and good crops.

"The low lands, in the pariſh of Alva, although conſiſting of. various ſoils, ſuch as rich clay, ſharp gravel, and ſome parcels of moſs, are in general very fertile. The ſoil fre- „quently changes very abruptly; ſo that all the different kinds of ſoil are found intermixed in the ſame field.

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