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The river Earn rises in Loch Earn, and joins the Tay below Perth. In its 

 lower valley, but at some distance from the river, is Auclitcrarder. Higher up, 

 and surrounded by beautifully wooded hills, is Crieff, a small town engaged in 

 the cotton, linen, and woollen trades, with an obelisk in honour of Sir David 

 Baird. The village of Comrio, on the line of division between the old red sand- 

 stone and the Silurian rocks, is stated to suffer frequently from earthquakes. 



The south-western portion of Perthshire is drained by the Forth and its 

 tributary Tcith. The Forth rises at the eastern foot of Ben Lomond (3,123 feet), 

 and in its lower course washes the district of Menteith, with a beautiful lake 

 embosomed in wooded hills. At Stirling it is joined by the Allan, flowing 

 through a strath of the same name, in which is seated the picturesque town of 

 Dunhlane, with the remains of a fine cathedral and mineral springs, which make 

 it a rival of the Stirlingshire town of Bridge of Allan, lower down on the same 

 river. The Teith flows past the small town of Donne, near which, at Dcanston, is 

 a large cotton-mill. At Calknder the wild gorge of the Trossachs, which leads 

 up to Loch Katrine, whence Glasgow draws its water, and the entrance to which 

 is guarded by Ben Ledi (3,009 feet), branches off" to the right, whilst Strath Ire 

 comes down from the northward. Following it we reach Balqnl adder, the burial- 

 place of Itob Roy, and the braes rendered famous by his exploits. 



There still remains to be noticed a small detached portion of Perthshire on 

 the Firth of Forth, within which lie the small port of Kincardine and the fishing 

 village of Cii/ross, with the ruins of an abbe}'. 



Forfarshire, or Angt:s, is bounded on the north by the Binchinnin 

 Mountains, which are a section of the Grampians, and extend from Glas Miel 

 (3,502 feet) to Mount Battock (2,ô54 feet). The southern slope of this range, 

 which is furrowed by Glen Isla, Glen Esk, and Glen Mark, is known as the Braes 

 of Angus, and abuts upon the fertile Strathmore, which occupies the centre of the 

 county, and is separated from the Firth of Tay and the North Sea by the Sidlaw 

 Hills (1,134 feet). 



Dundee extends for several miles along the northern shore of the Tay, here 

 nearly 2 miles in width, which did not prevent our engineers from throwing a 

 railway bridge across it. Unfortunately, during a severe gale in December, 

 1879, the structure was precipitated into the Tay, together with a railway train 

 hastening across it at the time. Dundee is an ancient city, which has been frequently 

 besieged and taken. It was the first town in Scotland to sever its connection 

 with Pome, and the religious ardour of its citizens converted it into a second 

 Geneva. It is the most populous town in Northern Scotland, and the first in the 

 United Kingdom for flax, jute, and hemp spinning and weaving, its factories in 

 these branches alone emploj'ing more than 50,000 operatives. But, in addition to 

 this, there are engineering works, ship-yards, and other industrial factories, and 

 200,000 cwts. of marmalade are made every year. For the last century the 

 mariners of Dundee have pursued the high-sea fisheries with varying success, but 

 on the whole not without profit, for at the present day they almost monopolize the 

 whale fisheries in Bafiin's Bay and the seal fisheries in the Greenland Sea. The 



