sect. V. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 303 



year. And this will consume at least 15,000 

 bolls of barley. 



Linen. The manufacture of linen is more 

 extensive, more valuable, and employs a much 

 greater number of hands, than any other in the 

 county. The different kinds of linen goods 

 manufactured here, are damasks, diapers, checks, 

 ticks, Osnaburghs, arid Silesias, or brown linens, 

 besides plain linen of various fabrics, for shirt- 

 ing and other domestic purposes. Damasks 

 and diapers are made chiefly at Dunfermline, 

 which town has been long famous for that branch 

 of business, employing sometimes not less than 

 800 looms in it. Checks and ticks are manu- 

 factured principally at Kirkaldy, Dysart, and 

 the immediate neighbourhood. Silesias, Osna- 

 burghs, &c. are made in great quantities in 

 Auchtermuehtie,Falkland, Cupar, Kettle, Strath- 

 miglo, Leslie, Markinch, Kennoway, Leven, 

 Largo, East Wemyss, and by a variety of hands 

 more widely scattered, in other parts of the 

 county. 



The following abstract-account of linen cloth 

 stamped for sale annually in the county of Fife, 

 with its value, and medium price, for the space 

 of 1 1 years immediately preceding November 

 1798, will serve to give a view of the progress 

 and importance of this Branch of business. The 

 account for 1799 could not be furnished before 

 this went to the press : but it is supposed that 

 it will far exceed the quantity of any former 

 year. 



