Fifeshire. deathin,) Cicuta virosa; and the basket osier, Salix £. s. d. Scots. —_Fifeshire- 
Forbyana. The woods will furnish him with the yel- Cupar... 2. ‘ 98,535 13 4 
low star of Bethlehem, pores deen croak: oe Seen ae 126,013 - ty) . 
winter-green, Pyrola rotundifolia ;. kealdy ....... 87,664 16 -8 
— Chrysosplenium alters . ~ Dunfermline... 05... 56,250 13 4 
nifolium ; and thé bird’s-nest f Nidus- 
avis. Macduff’s cave at Elie ield him the Ger- co ch pep rrarerier necten. * ro Ue wr Aegan 
man Madwort, Asperuge ; and the French amountsto215. General Wemyss of WemyssCastle is at holders. 
sorrel of horticulturists. hills will afford him the present the knight of theshire. Jn Fife, there are two 
alpine bugle, Ajuga alpina ; the alpine bistort, Poly- complete districts of burghs, each of which sends a mem- 
viviparum; the common, moonwort, Osmunda ber to parliament, viz. one comprehending the burghs 
p yawns and the rock brakes, Pieris crispa. Among _of Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Kinghorn, and Burntisland ; and 
the fields of wheat, the smooth rye brome , Eom icimmereinine bine eeoen: 
mus secalinus, appears, a common but unwelcome visi- 5 ilrenny. of C and St An- 
tant. arsine tabaci Dundee, = Forfar ; and 
The zoology of Fife is no less i ing than its Dunfermline and Inverkeithing to Stirling, Queensfer- 
botany, in consequence of the great extent of sea coast. ry, and Culross. Fife, therefore, has in effect four re- 
On the land the zoologist will meet with the rare Sorec _presentatives in parliament, and consequently nearly 
fodiens in meadow ground, the Tringa alpina breeding Ps, gg of the whole representation of Scot- 
in the Tents Moor, and the atropos, @ rare visi- This, however, is no more than her just share, 
tant of Cupar, The Tay the Forth.will fwnish being nearly in ion to the valuation and the 
him er ee ge tee he rearerainel edie pueches SA ea eR 
and the Cyclopterus . 7 shores he tion e county in 1811, amounted to Population. 
pick up the following > Caecum (Dentalium) in 52,061 males, 55,304 females, making a total number 
perforatum yr» nee acre Turbo cingillus, and if he of 107,865 souls, At a former period, the landward 
is in search of the Crustacea and Radiata, the Pandalus districts: must have contained a greater number of inha- 
Montagui, and the Ophiura aculiata will reward his bitants than at present; as in travelling through the 
exertions county, you frequently meet with rows of ash trees in 
2. Civil History —The county of Fife at a former the midst of cultivated fields, where formerly. stood the 
as erse ser og have been of great extent, andto hamlets of the peasantry. Even in the burghs on the 
the county of Kinross, and part of Clack- . shores of the Forth, ruinous buildings every where pre« 
™anan. : } name Parag pp pi ber rd Bg em 
of Ross, or the peni and hence Culross signified to which, alas! they are now strangers. The active 
the lower part of the peninsula, Kinross the head of the _ part of the population of Fife, is engaged either in the 
i ,; and Muckross, now Fifeness, the.snout. of pursuits of agriculture, manufactures, or fishing. 
peninsula. The last division may have obtained Four-fifths of the county are considered arable, and 4 jie 
infested are at present under the management of judicious and ture. 
that ; ent the | is divided active agriculturists. The furm-houses, which formerly 
into sixty-one parishes, distributed into four pres- were mean in their appearance, and afforded little ac- 
ee en erent eae -commodation to the tenants, are now built of substan- 
we re infe i ry pour saa pau dein Se eo aha The 
constitute ‘synod i size of farms is very various, on an average ma 
which meets at Cupar and Ki en ee gO be considered as not exceeding 120 acres, The ordi- 
f athe eee i The a ee See reat The rents 
vided four districts for lating -are usually paid in money, in some cases in the 
busi which ae pera rato The enclosures are chiefly form- 
ed with stone walls, Thorn hedges, which beautify a 
country, and yield-shelter and warmth to the fields, are 
disliked by the farmer, on the supposition that they har- 
bour vermin, by which he means small birds. But the 
same farmer who offers this objection, will not fail to per- 
i- mit forty or fifty pairs of sparrows to hatch their young 
held by different under his roof in safety in spring, while he will e 
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many instances of individual proprietors, these last oc- ly known in the country ; and .the een eve,entens 
eupiers being termed feuars. Another class of lands, ridges which f prevailed, have exchanged 
pe re der ie re wie peecnensd by bur- for a more rational and productive mode of tillage, Sum- 
ome sw no a polar uboriateined Te weuhibe Eeetinian chines sontnn teminiee 
- corporations to private indivi tw without descending to particu~ 
a, The valued rent athe county 50 13s,4d. lars, to mention the rotations of crops which are obser- 
Scots, ‘among: i in ‘the ved on the various soils which here occur, rotations dic- 
manners 9 yy ep dies tated by experience, sometimes by example, and rarely 
; °® We are happy in having it in our’ power to enirol tuts plant as an undoubted native of Scotland. Sir Robert Sibbald” mentions 
‘it in his list of Scotish plants without adding a habitat, Prod. part iy. page 41; and Lightfoot, upon his authority, retains it with 
‘It was found in Forret Den, near Kilmany, by avery keen and indefatigable botanist, Mr Alexander Chalmers, surgeon, 
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