FIF 
Pifehire bytheery. ‘The crops commonly cultivated are oals, 
“—Y~" of which there are many varieties ; barley, and in the condition; but the private parish roads, in which he 
colder big ; tohaet, both, red anes Nenn AEG the proprietors and farmers are materially interested, yi 
wheat seldom ; rye on-thin sandy soils; beans, pease, and are in bad, and in winter nearly impassible. -—s 
tares ; clover and rye grass ; potatoes, and turnips both This fault may be fairly charged ietors, 
Live stock. 
Manufac- 
Fisheries. 
Roads. 
‘of the Hi 
“may expect a number of 
common and Swedish ; flaz is raised in small quantities, 
hemp is never at present even attempted. Although 
there are a great many trees around the mansion-houses 
of proprietors, there is still much ground in the county 
fit only for planting, which is at t, comparatively 
speaking, useless. On many farms, there is not as 
much wood as ‘would make a gate. Farm-yard dun 
is the principal manure, and a straw yard is ceadidenddl 
as one of the most valuable appendages of farm offices. 
Lime is-universally used, marl is employed in a few 
places. Even the refuse of the ironstone mines at Dy- 
sart, has been found a le manure to the sandy soils 
of that neighbou . It consists of several varieties 
of bituminous shale and slate clay, and was first applied 
to this useful by Mr Jameson of Dysart. 
- The Fife — othe dai Th ears ay 
‘or feeding, or iry. ey wei fi 
to fifty stones, are usually of a black or brown tee, 
horns turned up, limbs short, and the body round. The 
cows give from ten to fourteen Scots pints of milk each 
day in summer. The breed of horses was formerly very 
small, and resembled the Highland garrons. But by 
the introduction of stallions from other parts, the Fife 
horses are now fit for the saddle and the draught. . The 
native breed of sheep was the common white- kind, 
or mountain sheep, of a small size, with fine wool, 
which have been banished by the introduction of the i 
black-faced, or Linton breed, with coarse wool, and of 
a wandering disposition ; or by some of the improved 
cross breeds from England. The swine are principally 
and kind, with arched backs, pk cae at 
tles. Rabbits are protected in many places, and the 
annual value of their skins probably exceeds six thou- 
sand pounds, _The number of pigeons in Fife is very 
—- pigeon cotes amounting to nearly three hun- 
As connected with the agriculture of the county, we 
may mention that there are four distilleries, three of 
which prepare whisky for the home market, and the 
other for the London trade. There are breweries inal- 
most every village, which supply the inhabitants with 
beer ; and strong ale is also compounded by some of the 
incipal brewers. The manufacture of linen, compre- 
ing damasks, diapers,checks, ticks, Osnaburghs, and 
‘ Silesias, gives employment to a great number of weavers 
in the diff 
erent towns and villages. Saltis made in the 
~neighbourhood of the great coal-works on the Forth. 
The tanning -of leather is.performed in several places. 
Soap and po a rn wate rn considerable quan- 
tity, Brick and tyle are made at Cupar, Gair Bridge, 
-Burntisland, Kirkcaldy, Scotscraig, and Anstruther. 
In consequence of the extent -of sea-coast, we 
ing villages, and. 
that the-county is well supplied with fish. The case 
is so in reality. -Anumber of fishermen in the towns 
on the coast, direct their attention to the haddock and 
cod fishing, and, in their season, catch herring. In the 
Tay there are extensive salmon fishings, and in the 
spring, sperlings, Salmo eperlanus, are obtained. 
The county of Fife is intersected by numerous roads, 
and the materials for keeping them in repair are easily 
obtained. The more public roads, on which are erect~ 
repaixs'to; 
only about gain, all the while seemingly not averse to 
the jolting which they often experience. There are 
few bridges deserving of particular notice. The Gair 
Bridge over the Eden, consisting of six arches, holds 
the rank. - It was built. in the beginning of the 
fifteenth century, by Henry Wardlaw, Bishop of St — 
Andrews. On the south coast.there are several excel~ 
lent harbours, of which Burntisland is the safest and 
eres be me El hich, the d pth of 
ight be constru at Elie, whi e 
water, could be taken at all times of the Gide and 
would prove a safe retreat to the vessels navigating the 
Forth. In the Tay there are several ports to which 
ships resort. The principal of these are rewpcinw 
Woodhaven, and Newbur; The imports are chiefly 
wood, oak, bark, hides, flax, iron, tar; and groceries. 
coasting 
heneenene an aneennaes phony raring yes ton 
in consequence permanent features of nature, 
the hills and yalleys, springs, and rivulets, not having 
been attended to. Mr Givan at Cupar is at present 
executing a new map of Fife, which we expect will be 
free from those defects, which are but too apparent in 
a great number of county plans. For further partieu- 
lars, the reader is referred to Sibbald’s History of Fife 
and Kinross, Svo, Cupar, 1803 ; and Thomson's Agri- 
culture of Fife, 8vo, Edin. 1800. ? Nr 
FIFTEENTH Maysor, in Music (xv), is an interval, 
the double of the major eight, or diapason, and thence 
often called the bisdiapason, the disdiapason, the re- 
plicate of the octave, and the quinzieme ; its ratio-is 
4, = 12245 4 24f 4+ 106m, its common log, = 
-3979400.0868.. ; 
Firrsentu Minor (15th), is the octave of the minor 
eighth, or the doubled minor eighth, as musicians 
improperly term it, instead of its replicate ; and it has 
the ratio of 334, =1177 54-23 f+4.102m, and its com- 
hs log. Siar is iy soy ry igaa 
IFTEENTH on rgan, is a range of pipes 
in large organs, which are each tuned a major fifteenth, 
or double octave above the corresponding pipes in 
the diapason stops. In accompanying choral in 
-churches and concert-rooms, this stop is ge used 
in conjunction with the open and stop diay the 
incipal and the twelfth stops. (¢) 
FIFTH, in Music, is the numeral designation. of an 
‘interval, consisting of 5 diatonic , including the 
lowest and highest of these; but besides the intervals 
‘come under this denomination, a 
