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of its regularity and bearing. Upon the same 

 course is the coal at Gilston, part of Lundin 

 estate ; Fallfield and Largo-ward, belonging to 

 Mr Durham of Largo ; Lethallen, the property 

 of Major Lumsden ; and at Kingsmuir in the 

 parish of Denino, near the eastern extremity of 

 the county. From the one end of this tract to 

 the other, limestone quarries are also found of 

 greater or less extent. In the parishes of Auch- 

 terderran and Abbot shall, particularly, are the 

 lime-quarries of Chapel, Gleniston, and Foul- 

 ford, where a vast quantity of lime rock has 

 been, and still continues to be wrought. 



To the northward of the tract last described, 

 we meet with the highest grounds in the coun- 

 ty, stretching from Saline to St Andrews. Here 

 the surface being exceedingly unequal, some- 

 times rising into high hills, and then sinking in- 

 to deep valleys, we find the different strata lying 

 in all imaginable directions ; and sometimes the 

 same strata dipping and cropping towards the 

 opposite points of the compass. In the Saline 

 hills, both coal and lime are found in various 

 places. There is a considerable coal-work at 

 Kelty in the parish of Beith, on the borders of 

 Kinross- shire. And at East Blair, on the south 

 side of Binarty hill, there is another coal, near 

 which is a lime-\\ork belonging to Mr Syme 

 of Lochorr. Between Binarty and the Lomond 

 hills, the strata are interrupted and cut off by 

 the deep valley through which the water of Le- 

 ven ^fiows. But near the top of the Lomonds, 

 the lime-stone again appears, of which a regular 

 bed is found cropping out on the north side of 

 the west, and on the south side of the east Lo- 



