Sect. r. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 30! 



Brought forward 142 13,5 3 883 

 The shipping employed in the trade west 

 of Aberdeen, and on the north side of 

 the county, cannot be ascertained with 

 any degree of exactness. But when 

 we consider the great exportation of 

 lime and coal from the parishes of 

 Dunfermline and Inverkeithing, a- 

 mounting annually to not less than 

 j 20,000 tons ; the great quantities of 

 grain shipped from the north side, and 

 other branches of trade, belonging to 

 these districts, of inferior importance 

 and extent, the shipping necessary for 

 these purposes, making allowance for 

 the vessels belonging to the other ports 

 that may be occasionally employed, 

 cannot be calculated under - 80 6,400 480 



222 19,913 1,363 



SECT. r. MANUFACTURES. 



FIFE has been long distinguished as a manu- 

 facturing county ; and particularly, within the 

 last 12 or 15 years, some of its principal manu- 

 factures have reached a degree of perfection, 

 and havetbeen carried on to an extent, unknown 

 at any former period. 



In a report, which has a special reference to 

 agriculture, the manufacture of grain must na- 

 turally fall under our observation. It has been 

 already stated that there are, in Fife, 14 flour 

 mills, which annually manufacture 40,000 bolls 

 of wheat into flour, and chiefly for home con- 

 sumption. Of barley, there cannot be less than 

 42,000 bolls yearly made into malt, and that 

 again manufactured into whisky and beer of 



