HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



junction, the Amon forms the more remarkable 

 boundary throughout its course to the Forth, 

 except at Mid-Calder, where Edmburghshire in- 

 trudes somewhat more than a mile into Linlith- 

 gowshire. On the west, this county is separated , 

 from Stirlingshire, first, by the Linn Burn, from 

 its rise till its junction with the Avon, which 

 now forms the separation between them, till it 

 falls into the Forth. The length of the east 

 side, from the foot of Almond, on the north-east, 

 to the top of Breich water, on the south-west, is 

 nearly twenty -one miles ; the breadth is twelve 

 miles. The superficial contents of the whole 

 appear, from very minute calculations, to be 121 

 square miles or 77,440 statute acres. . . . None 

 of the protuberances of this district rise into lofty 

 eminences ; neither is its surface by any means 

 flat. It is diversified by a number of small hills, 

 which do not rise to any inconvenient elevation. 

 The most remarkable of them forms a range, 

 which runs from Bowden, across the middle of 

 the county, in an oblique direction from north- 

 west to south-east. Cairn-naple, the most prom- 

 inent centre of this range, rises to the height of 

 1498 feet above the level of the sea; and Cock- 

 lerne, on the western part of this range, rises to 

 the height of 500 feet.^ The Kipps Hills, Knock 

 Hills, and Drumcross Hills, all form conspicuous 

 parts of this range. Biccarton-edge and Binny- 



^ The Ordnance Survey sheets indicate that Cairnpai^ple is about 

 1000 feet, and Cockleroi about 900 feet, above sea-level. 



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