THE TOPOGRAPHY. 7 



Besides the Forth and Tay, that traverse the confines of the 

 county, there are three rivers of considerable dimensions, as 

 well as of mercantile importance, which flow through the dis- 

 trict, and lay open in several places valuable sections of the 

 rocks. These are the Eden, the Leven, and the Orr. The 

 Eden takes its rise near the western extremity of the shire, in 

 the parish of Strathmiglo, and, after a course of eighteen miles, 

 falls into the sea at the Guard Bridge, near the Bay of St. 

 Andrews. The Leven issues from the loch of the same name, 

 and runs along the southern escarpment of the Lomonds into 

 the Forth, near the Bay of Largo ; and the Orr, which rises in 

 the coal-basin of Blair-Adam, and joining the Leven a few 

 miles to the north of Largo, discharge their united waters into 

 the ba}'" at Leven. The lochs connected with the county are 

 Loch-Fitty, Loch-Gelly, Loch-Leven, Loch-Mill, the Black- 

 Loch, Lindores, and Kilconquhar, all of which are well stocked 

 with pike and perch, some of them with excellent trout. They 

 are frequented with various species of wild-fowl, and their 

 banks are adorned with tribes of flowering aquatic and crypto- 

 gamic plants. 



