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The stated fairs or markets in the county, 

 through the year, amount to 87. At Cupar, 8. 

 At Dimfermline, 8. At Falkland, 8. At 

 Leven, 7. At St Andrews, 6. At Inverkeith- 

 ing, 5. At Crossgates, 5. At Dysart, 4. At 

 Auchtermuchtie, 4. At Anstruther, easter, 3. 

 At Saline, 3. At Leuchars, 2. At Leslie, 2. 

 At Kilconquhar, 2. At Kinglassie, 2.7 At Pit- 

 lessie, 2. At Ceres, 2. At Colinsburgh, 2. 

 At Kirkaldy, 2. At Kinghorn, 2. At New- 

 burgh> 2. At Strathmiglo, 2. At Pathhead, 2. 

 At Torryburn, i. At Wemyss, i. Besides 

 these, which are the principal, some other mar- 

 kets are held in a few of the obscurer villages, 

 particularly in the month of April, for the sale 

 of flax-seed. 



In all the principal towns, weekly markets 

 are regularly held, to which the people in the 

 neighbourhood resort with such productions 

 frpm the country as they have to spare, and 

 which may be most wanted by the inhabitants 

 of the towns ; at the same time furnishing 

 themselves from the shops with such articles as 

 they find most necessary for domestic use, par- 

 ticularly articles of clothing and groceries. Nay, 

 in almost every village of any consequence 

 through the county, shop's are to be found, 

 which supply the neighbourhood with a varie- 

 ty of necessary articles, and which could not be 

 got otherwise, but from an inconvenient dis- 

 tance, and with much loss of time ; such as meal, 

 barley, spirits, candle, soap, starch, ashes, tea, 

 sugar, bread, butter, tobacco, snufF, ropes, nails, 

 furnishing for funerals, locks, hinges, ,scythes, 

 reaping-hooks, &c. &c. 



