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told, marie is so plenty, and so near the surface, 

 that the wheels of carts often turn it up as they 

 pass along ; and yet the farmer, either from in- 

 dolence, or through ignorance of its value, has 

 never thought of applying it as a manure to his 

 grounds. 



Besides clay of excellent quality for making 

 house bricks and tyles to any extent, a species 

 of clay has been found, proper for the purpose 

 of making fire-bricks. In Durie coal-works, 

 particularly, it it procured in fuch quantity, a 

 to encourage a gentleman to set on foot a ma- 

 nufacture of fire-bricks, which is doing well j 

 and the bricks, upon trial, are found completely 

 to answer the purpose. 



SECT. VI. WATER. 



THE streams in Fife are so inconsiderable", 

 that though they are sometimes called rivers, 

 none of them are properly entitled to be de- 

 signed, by that name. The largest are usually 

 styled waters, and the smaller streams, brooks, 

 or burns the water of Leven, for instance, and 

 Pitmilly burn. The following are the principal 

 waters : 



I//, The Orr, which issues from a loch or 

 lake of that name in the parish of Balingry. 

 About a mile below the loch, it is joined by a 

 stream from Lochfittie ; and farther down, by 

 another from Lochgellie, and, at last loses itself 

 in the water of Leven, about half a mile above 

 Cameron bridge. Upon this water there are 

 six corn mills, two fulling mills, two lint mills, 



