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distance of time it was defended from the sea by 

 a tract of land. The same remarks are strictly 

 applicable to the shores on the northern side at 

 Culross, and along the estates of Sir Robert Pres- 

 ton and Lord Elgin, and all the way to North 

 Queensferry. From an inspection of the charts 

 of the coast, it w^ill appear, that these effects are 

 not likely to have been produced from any parti« 

 cular exposure, as this part of the Frith is com- 

 pletely land-locked, and is otherwise well sheltered 

 from storms. These appearances would therefore 

 seem to imply a change upon the level of the 

 ocean, occasioning an overfilUng of the various in- 

 lets of the sea. 



Below Queensferry, or to the eastward of it, Linlithgow 

 these effects are perhaps still more remarkable. 

 On the southern side of the Frith at Barnbougle 

 Castle, the seat of the Earl of Rosebery, in for- 

 mer times there was a lawn of considerable ex- 

 tent on the eastern front, and on both sides of the 

 castle : This lawn is now completetly washed 

 away by the sea, and it has long since been 

 found necessary to erect a bulwark for the safe- 

 ty of the castle, which is rapidly approaching to 

 an insulated state, so that the Noble Proprietor 

 has in some measure been under the necessity of 

 building a new mansion-house upon a more ele- 

 vated situation. Tracing the same shore, along shireof 

 the rocky boundary of Granton and Royston, to Edinburgh 

 Wardy and Newhaven, we are no less struck with 



