1 III MURRAY FIRTH. 489 



\ a chapel, hath contributed liberally 

 toward^ the cxtcnfion of their harbour, the molt 



luge fo. ;ig brtwmi Kinnaird's 



, and, as iuch, hath 



; hath lately been dif- 



covci rt in 



ic acco; on the carl of Fife 



lodging-houfe. 



.lied 



R 



and 1 the 



.1 to 



ing of i igdoms, from the warn 



light- .irbour, as will appear from 



the foil ncmorial : 



Memorial rcfpctling tbe Port of Frafcrjlurgb, 

 1785. 



ilrfburgh is a port town in the 



county of Aben. ontaining about 1000 in- 



habitants, a in a c .nd po- 



pulous country, on the point of land called Kin- 

 nairJ's head, which extremity of the 



Murray fir 



>n both fides of that point is gcncr 

 low and rocky, and fo dangerous for (hipping, that 

 fcarcc a wint happen- 



ing on it. xpedition, of Stockton, ot 400 



tons burden, wrecked within three miles of 



rfburgh, in P *7$4> in the . 



e. 



inaird's .,ih lar : ^ing out to 



fea, and from the fituation of t' , is generally 



the ftrft land made i coming from the north 



or caft fea, to the eaftern coaft of Scotland. From 



