SIBBALD’S HISTORY OF THE SHERIFFDOMS OF FIFE AND KINROSS. 
account of the population of each county 
and each district in Scotland; from which 
we are informed, that the whole amount- 
ed, in 1755, to 1,265,380; in 1790-8, it 
increased to 1,527,892; and in 1801, to 
1,604,826 ; making an increase, in 46 
years, of 339,416 persons. To this are 
added, a chronological table of kings, 
the peerage, the districts of royal bo- 
roughs which send members to parlia- 
ment, the real and valued rent of Scot- 
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land by counties, the principal roads and 
fairs arranged under each month.— 
“The elegant map,”’ announced in the 
title-page, is very badly drawn and 
badly engraved.We often sought in vain 
for places mentioned in the description, 
and found that the spelling of places 
in the map and in the gazetteer, was 
often at variance ; a circumstance which 
should be more strictly attended to by 
editors. 
Art. VI. The History, anticnt and modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross ; with 
a Description of both, and of the Firths of Forth and Tay, and the Islands in them ; in 
which there is an ‘Account of the Royal Seats and Casties, and of the Royal Burghs and 
Ports, and of the religious Houses and Schools, and of the most remarkable Houses of the 
Nobility and Gentry. 
With an Account of the naiural Products of the Land and Waters. 
By Sir Rosert Sissarv, M.D. A new Edition, with Notes and Illustrations, 
Svo. pp. 468, 
SIR Robert Sibbald has had the ho- 
nour of leading the way in the arduous 
undertaking of elucidating the history 
of his native country. That he has 
produced a work worthy of its patro- 
nage is implied by the republication of 
this volume at the present more enlight- 
ened period; he introduces the follow- 
ing words in his epistle to the reader. 
*« This history and description of Fife and 
‘Kinross, courteous reader, is a specimen [ 
Was desired to give of what I had done by 
the commend of King Charles II. in the de- 
scription of North Britain, ancient and mo- 
dern: it was not my blame that it is not ac- 
companied with maps of them, but theirs 
who ougist to have seen that done. I have 
supplied that want as well as I could, by a 
particular description of the most remarkable 
places, and by lists of the heritors ancient 
and modern.” 
The work contains four parts, and an 
appendix. ‘The first describes the an- 
tient extent of the shire; its antient name; 
a description of the country in the time 
of the Romans ;.a character of the Cale- 
donians termed Dicaledones and Vec- 
turiones, gnd whence they emigrated ; 
the language of the Picts; their man- 
Mers, policy, and religious rites. The 
; “ actions and exploits’ of the Romans 
in Scotland, and the wars of the Danes 
in the shire. 
The second part treats of the firths 
of Forth and ‘Tay, the islands of the 
former, the animals, the sanguineous 
fish, exsanguious animals, and the mi- 
nerals of both the firths, and the plants 
upon the firth of Forth, and some within 
the sea-mark; the natural history of the 
ghire: the state of the christian religion, 
and an account of the Culdees who first 
introduced it, “ shewing how the Cul- 
dees were deprived of their rights,’” and 
of the religious houses and hospitals in 
these shires. 
The third division concerns the shire 
of Fife; the jurisdiction; the earls; and 
officers: Macduff the first earl, and the 
privileges he obtained of king Malcolm 
Kanmor;‘a list of the earls; the civil 
jurisdiction ; list ef bishops and priors 
of St. Andrews; of the clergy, nobility 
and gentry; officers of state of Fife; and 
an account of the university of St. An- 
drews. Next follows a history of Kine 
ross-shire. 
Part fourth. The coast from the 
western boundary to the river Leven, 
thence to Fifeness, thence to the river 
Eden; a description of the inland country 
east from the Lomonds, of the Strath 
of Leven, of Lochorshire, of the west- 
ern parts inland of the plains of Eden, 
and of the northern parts inland. 
The appendix contains the natural his- 
tory of Fife ; particulars concerning some 
natives of this shire eminent for learning 
and arts; antient heritors of the shire; 
new list of the principal heritors, and 
of those of Kinross; Gordon’s list of 
those of the former shire; houses of 
the nobility and gentry: the valuation 
of Fifeshire, 1695; list of the parishes, 
as divided into presbyteries, with the 
names of patrons and incumbents; list 
of the British kings; and, lastly, an ac- 
count of the arrival and treatment of 
some ship-wrecked mariners and soldiers 
of the Spanish armada, at Anstruther. 
The editor of this edition has collected 
a vast number,of notes, which are in- 
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