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THE BRITISH ISLES 



Bvoughty Fory, at the mouth of the Tay, is an outpovt of Dundee, with the marine 

 viUas of many of its merchants. At a distance of 12 miles to the cast of it, on a 

 lonely rock, stands the Bell Rock Lighthouse. 



Carnoustie is merely a favourite watering-place, but Arbroath, though its 

 harbour is small, is a port of some importance, and manufactures canvas and sack- 

 ing. It was fomous in former times for its abbey, of which only ruins now 

 exist. Montrose, on a sandy peninsula that almost shuts ofif from the sea the 

 shallow bay into which the Southern Esk pours its waters, is a town of considerable 

 commerce, largely engaged in the linen trade, the manufacture of starch and 



Fig. 181.— DcxDEE AND THE Mouth of the Tay. 

 Scale 1 : 250,000. 



Foreshore. 



Over Itj 

 Fathoms. 



2 Miles. 



candles, and the building of ships. Brechin, on the Esk, is likewise noted, for its 

 linen manufacture, in addition to which there are nurseries, distilleries, paper- 

 mills, and freestone quarries. By the side of the ancient cathedral, sadly disfigured 

 by modern restorers, stands a large round tower. Forfar, a fine old town in the 

 centre of Strathmore, is the county town. Like its neighbour Kirriemuir, it is 

 eno-asred in the linen trade. Xear these towns is the magnificent baronial castle 

 of Glammis. 



KixfAKDTNE, or Mearns, cxtcnds from the Southern Esk to the Dee, and is 

 in part occupied by the northern extremity of Strathmore, which reaches the sea 

 at the town of Stonehaven, the harbour of which is formed by the mouth of the Carron. 



