5 i8 OF THE EAST COAST FROM THE 



chorage and drep water for (hips of the line*. 

 The north entrance of this noble ri hed 



by of May, a large rock, 3 , ,er- 



ence, which affords fare riding for 11 rly 



ftorms, and hath a light-houfe. 1 



thciileofr liland, 



* a tremendous . ,ip- 



age. 



lace 9 mil , opens 



within land^to 18 miles; contracts at Edinburgh to 

 5 miles ; and, at the QuecnVferry, ah 

 burgh, to Itfs than 2 mil iens again to near 



4 miles ; is navigable for merchantmen as high as 

 Alloa, 50 ; om the 1 J for co far 



as Stirling, 24 miles further by v only 



in a direct line. 



The liver dill exhibits a feries of ferpcntine 

 ov for feveral miles above Stirling, but the 



tide Rows only a full mile higher, to a place called 

 Craigforth, where the proprietor intercepts the paf- 

 fage of the falmon by a cruive or weir, very injurious 

 to the large tract of country, which ftretches as far as 

 Ben-Lomond wei>' r, from Stirling to 



the bridge of Aberfoil, at the entrance into the Weft 

 Highlands, is only paffablc for man or horfc at 

 places, and theie in dry feafons. It glides gently 

 thrc;u::h a dead flat, from Gartmore eaftwn 

 on thefe accounts it might be made navigable for 

 barges, at a trifling expence to the proprietors of the 

 lands, an improvement much wanted in a rich, 

 tcnfive and populous valley, without market towns, 

 coal and lime. 



Suppofing this work to be executed, of which 

 there is fome probability, the whole extent of naviga- 

 tion on the Forth, will, including all its windings, 



' In 1781, admiral Parker's fleet lay fome days oppofite to 

 Edinburgh, accompanied by sco fail of i\ .-en, the whole 



in full vie Y rf the city and cafllc. 



exceed 



