XIV. An Account of the Peat-Mosszs of Kincardine and Flan- 
ders in Perthfbire. By the Reverend Mr Curis ToPHER TAIT, 
Minifter of Kincardine. 
[Read Fuly 2. 1792] 
HE moffes of Kincardine and Flanders are fituated in that 
extenfive plain or care which begins at Borrowftounnefs, 
on the fouth fide of the Frith of Forth, and a little above 
FEaftern Kincardine, on the north fide. It ftretches along both 
fides, firft of the Frith, and afterwards of the river Forth, as 
far as Cardrofs, about twenty-two miles weft of the point 
where it begins. The breadth of this plain, or carfe, at Falkirk, 
where it is wideft,is about feven miles, including whatis occupied 
by the Frith. At Stirling it is contracted to three quarters of a 
mile, and the mean breadth of it, from that place to Cardrofs, 
is about three miles. The foil is a rich blue clay, beyond any 
depth that has been examined, excepting that a bed of gravel 
rifes near to the furface for the fpace of a mile, betwixt Blair 
Drummond and Ochte tyre, and dips towards the Forth, at the 
rate of about one foot in the hundred. Almoft the whole of 
this traét appears to the eye like a dead flat, the only emi- 
nences in it being thofe of Airth, Dunmore, Craigforth, and the 
hill of Dript, which are all inconfiderable, both as to extent and 
height. Thefe eminences alfo contain the only rocks difcover- 
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