'2$S AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF chap. XF. 



Aberdour, westward, belongs to the custom- 

 house of Borrowstounness. 



The foreign trade of this county is carried on 

 chiefly with Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Rus- 

 sia, Poland, Prussia, Germany, and Holland. 

 The chief articles of export are coal, and a few 

 of our manufactures. The imports are wood 

 of different kinds, such as oak, fir, beech, &c. 

 oak-bark hydes and tallow grain, particu- 

 larly wheat, barley, and oats flax, and yarn 

 made of flax hemp iron tar flax-seed 

 clover-seed pearl-ashes Geneva, &c. 



'['he coasting trade is more important and va- 

 luable than the foreign. The principal articles 

 exported this way are grain of different kinds, 

 such as wheat, barley, pease, beans, malt ; coals; 

 lime ; salt ; various kinds of manufactured goods, 

 such as damasks, diapers, checks, ticks, Silesias, 

 Osnaburgs; leather, whisky, &c. The porta 

 from whence grain is exported, are Kirkaldy, 

 Nether Largo, Pittenweem, Ely, Ans-truther, 

 Grail, St Andrew's, Newhaven, and Newburgh. 

 Wheat is carried chiefly to Leith ; barley, to 

 Leith, to the west of Scotland by the great Ca* 

 nal, and to other counties in the more imme- 

 diate neighbourhood, for supplying the distille- 

 ries. Coal and salt arc exported from Kirkaldy, 

 Dysart, Wemyss, Methel, Pittenweem, Inver- 

 keithing, Capernaum, St David's, and Crombie- 

 point. Lime, chiefly from Charlestown, Aber- 

 dour, and Burntisland. The last three articles 

 are carried to different parts of Fife, particularly 

 on the north side, and to the counties north of 

 Fife. Some of the coals go to the south side of 

 the Forth, and some of the lime to Carron. The 



