24 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF clap. /*. 



of the Leven to the western boundary of Kir- 

 kaldy, this tract of good land is very narrow ; 

 the poor soil approaching within a mile, and, in 

 some places, within half a mile, of the shore. 

 Beyond that, towards the west, it grows broad- 

 er ; and, in the parishes of Inverkeithing, Dun- 

 fermline, and Torryburn, the breadth is, in ma- 

 ny places, almost equal to the tract in the eas- 

 tern extremity just now mentioned^ Here the 

 ground is more elevated above the level of the 

 sea than the other, and the surface more une- 

 ven ; but the soil is equally rich and productive. 

 The whole of this division produces luxuriant 

 ciops of all kinds, wheat, barley, beans, oats, 

 grass, turnip, potatoes, and all these of excellent 

 quality. In favourable seasons, when the ground 

 has been well prepared, the crops are exuberant 

 almost to excess. And, when well inclosed, and 

 laid out for pasture, the land here brings a high- 

 er rent than in any part of Great Britain, where 

 pasture alone is the object. 



Between the ideal waving line, which bounds 

 the district just now mentioned, on the north, 

 iind the bottom of the high ground south of the 

 Eden, and from. St Andrews on the east to the 

 extremity of the county on the west, the quality 

 of the soil is, in general, greatly inferior. A ve- 

 ry large proportion is cold poor clay, and very 

 vret ; and the strata under it, for the most part, 

 freestone, and closs till Though numbers of 

 large and small whin-stones are found, almost 

 every where, on the surface, or mixed with the 

 *oil, very little whin-rock strata are found under 

 it- In this district there are extensive tracts of 

 mossy, moorish, rocky, and barren ground } eU 



