AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



Miles in length. And where it is broadest, from 

 the Town of Kilsyth to the Castle of Elphingston, 

 it will be about twelve Miles in Breadth. The 

 Nature and Quality of its Soil differeth much, the 

 West and South-west parts of it are Mountain- 

 ous and Hillie : and the North part of it from the 

 Town of Stirling to the East March is Levell and 

 plain : and the South-east part is much of it a 

 rising ground. The whole is well watered with 

 the Waters, and the Bourns which run through 

 it ; and besides several Woods and Copices, the 

 Seats of the Nobility and the Gentry are well 

 planted : the South side is a mixed Countrey, 

 fitted for Pasture and Corns : the North side is 

 most fitted for Grains and Fruit Trees." 



Mr John Penney, a native of Bathgate, also 

 gives an account ^ of Linlithgowshire, written, most 

 probably, towards the end of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, which, although like Sir Robert Sibbald's, 

 bearing no reference to hunting, contains such a 

 fair description of the boundaries and contour of 

 that county as it exists at the present day, that 

 it may not be out of place to quote one or two 

 passages from it. Linlithgowshire, says Mr 

 Penney " has the Firth of Forth on the north, 

 Edinburghshire on the east and south - east, 

 Lanarkshire on the south-west, and Stirlingshire 

 on the west. On the east, it is separated from 

 Edinburghshire, first, by the Breich Water, from 

 its source till it joins the Amon ; and, after this 



^ ' Historical Account of Linlithgowshire,' by John Penney, 1832. 



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