XIV. An Account of the Pe at-Mo s s e s of Kincardine and Flan- 

 ders in Perth/hire. By the Reverend Mr CHRISTOPHER Tjit, 

 Mini/ler of Kincardine. 



[Read July 2. 1792.] 



THE mofTes of Kincardine and Flanders are fituated in that 

 extenfive plain or carfe which begins at Borrowftounnefs, 

 on the fouth fide of the Frith of Forth, and a little above 

 Eaftern Kincardine, on the north fide. It ftretches along both 

 fides, firfl of the Frith, and afterwards of the river Forth, as 

 far as Cardrofs, about twenty-two miles weft of the point 

 where it begins. The breadth of this plain, or carfe, at Falkirk, 

 where it is wideft,is about feven miles, including whatis occupied 

 by the Frith. At Stirling it is contracted to three quarters of a 

 mile, and the mean breadth of it, from that place to Cardrofs, 

 is about three miles. The foil is a rich blue clay, beyond any 

 depth that has been examined, excepting that a bed of gravel 

 rifes near to the furface for the fpace of a mile, betwixt Blair 

 Drummond and Ochre tyre, and dips towards the Forth, at the 

 rate of about one foot in the hundred. Almoft the whole of 

 this tract appears to the eye like a dead flat, the only emi- 

 nences in it being thofe of Airth, Dunmore, Cratgforth, and the 

 hill of Dript, which are all inconfiderable, both as to extent and 

 height. Thefe eminences alfo contain the only rocks difcover- 



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