MINERALOGY OF THE OCKILS. 



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traced to the Seedlay Hills; while the western 

 extremity should be regarded as a mountain-arm 

 stretching into the extensive valley which reach- 

 es from the verge of the Grampians, properly so 

 called, to the shores of the Forth : but as the pre- 

 sent object is to give a sketch of their particular 

 structure, without entering more into their ge- 

 neral relations than distinctness requires, it will be 

 convenient to view them as a small mountain^ 

 group, which rises above the sea-port of Par- 

 ton Craigs, on the right bank of the Tay, and, 

 after having skirted the northern parts of Fife- 

 shire, traversed Perthshire, bounded Kinross-shire 

 and Clackmananshire, through a course of more 

 than fifty miles, terminates on the river Allao, 

 near Dunblane, in Stirlingshire. 



This group consists of a high chain, the loftiest 

 point of which, at its first rise=^, does not exceed 

 three or four hundred feet ; but more lofty f sum- 

 mits occur to the westward, until Bencleugh J and 

 Dalmyatt, rear their heads at an elevation of more 



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* Craig Law, above the village of Parton Craigs. 



t The following are the most remarkable, going from east to 

 west. Norman's Law, Glenduchy hills, Clachert Craig, the hills 

 of Abernethy, Castle Law, Sea Male, King's Seat, Bencleugh, 

 Dalmyatt ; besides many others which may be traced in the 

 map. 



X Above the village of Westertown, &c. 



