clothed with fine verdure. The Loup of Fintry is a remarkable cataract, the river Enderick falling over a precipice 91 feet in height. Not far from this, there is a range of basaltic columns, 70 in number, which stand perpendicular 50 feet in height Auchinhilly Loup is another cascade, formed by the Carron.

KILSYTH is the most southerly parish of the county. The general aspect is naked and hilly; from the top of the highest hill the eye is carried to the Atlantic Ocean on the west, and to the German Ocean on the east. Upon the whole, the soil is light and dry. The Carron and the Kelvin are the two principal rivers in this parish. In a field where the bloody battle of Kilsyth was fought, are found a variety of ancient coins of gold, silver, and copper. In the Bullet-know, leaden balls or bullets may be dug up at almost every step. Vestiges of Graham's Dike, and of various fortifications, may be traced. There is here a wide field for the mineralogist: coal of various qualities; ironstone of different kinds, the most remarkable of which are the ironstone balls, or septaria, found in beds of blaes, lying in seemingly regular strata, but at unequal and irregular distances; they are uniformly of a round flat shape, but smallest at the top, and larger the deeper in the bank; they are esteemed at Carron as among the richest of their ores. Immediately under this stratum of blaes lies a fine stratum of limestone, in which the figures of shells, in great variety, may be traced. Mr Raspe examined a draft in the hills near Corri, where he found a vein of heavy spar, or vitriolated barytes, in some parts thinly sprinkled with copper ore. He found also specimens of red and yellow jasper, and nodules of agate and porphyry, all of which took a fine polish, were extremely beautiful, and very £t for the lapidary. At Garrel Glen there is a sandstone quarry, many parts of it of a fine white colour, decorated with delicate impressions of vegetables as black as coal. There are also curious trunk stones (stelechites quincunx) found in this quarry, indeed the most complete we have heard of.

CAMPSIE Consists of two hills, with a strath between them. In this strath run the rivers Kelvin and Glazart, the banks of which are a rich loam. On the hills are some natural wood, though much less than appears formerly to have grown there. In the hills called Campsie Fells there are appearances both of lead and copper, though neither have ever been wrought. There is here a fine range of basaltic columns, and some beautiful Scotch pebbles have occasionally been found. Here is coal, limestone, and clay marl, all in great abundance. The Kincaid and Lennox-mill printfields employ a great number of hands.

In the north-west corner of this county is situated STRATHBLANE. On both sides of the river Blane, and the valley to the west, the soil is a light sand, mixed with mud, deposited by the river and brooks, and affords good crops. The hills, being part of the Lennox hills, which extend from Dunbarton to Stirling, are finely skirted with wood, rendering the prospect very pleasing. The natural beauties here are numerous.

The insulated hill of Dum

goiack forms an interesting object. The spout of Ballagan is a cascade of 70 feet. Opposite the old tower of Mugdoch, and at the distance of about 300 yards, is a remarkable echo, which repeats distinctly the length of six syllables.

BALDERNOCK is situated on the banks of the Kelvin; the flat grounds to the east, and on the banks f the river, are rich and fertile; a light gravelly soil prevails in the west quarter, but al most the whole is arable. Several vestiges of Druidism are traced here, particularly the AULD WIVES LIFT, near the west end of Craigmaddy muir. It consists of three stones, two of which lie on the ground; the third lies across them, and is of a rhomboidal form, 18 feet in diameter.

In the parish of Balfron, the soil is in general wet and tilly, and agriculture is but in its infancy. There is here limestone and freestone, but no coal has yet been discovered.

KILLEARN forms the western extremity of the beautiful Strath of Blane. The hills on both sides afford good sheep pasture, and the strath, watered by the river Blane, meandering through wellcultivated fields and fertile pasture, render this parish picturesque and beautiful. The minerals are limestone and sandstone; specimens of beautiful jasper are occasionally found scattered amongst the fragments of the basaltic columns, which abound here. Ballikinrain, the residence of Robert Dunmore, Esq. is a neat mansion, in the neighbourhood of which stands the old castle of Ballglass. The farm of Moss, on the banks of the Blane, about 2 miles from the village of Killearn, is the spot where the illustrious George Buchanan was born, in the year 1506; his father was tenant of the farm. A very handsome monument, 103 feet high, was lately erected in the village of Killearn, in honour of Buchanan, by voluntary subscription.

DRYMEN lies on the western extremity of the county. The greater part is hilly and mountainous; the banks of the Forth here are for the most part covered with moss. This place is remarkable for nothing but being the birth-place of Napier of Merchiston, the celebrated inventor of the Logarithms.

BUCHANAN lies on the banks of Loch Lomond, and the Gram

pian hills run through it. Loch Lomond, and Buchanan-house, the residence of the Duke of Montrose, with its woods and plantations, are the ornaments of this quarter.

Of KIPPEN, which borders with Perthshire, the surface and division of the soil is exactly similar to that of Gargunnock, described below. This is the head of the strath, which commences at the Castle of Stirling. Gartmore-house, the residence of Mr Graham, stands at the top, commanding an extensive view of the plain below. The minerals are limestone and freestone.

In GARGUNNOCK the ground rises gradually from the river Forth to a considerable height, which causes three divisions of the soil; 1st, The carse ground; 2d, The dryfield, as it is called, covered, until cultivated, with furze and broom; 3d, The moor, consisting of about 3000 acres. The rent is about L. 3000 Sterling. The attention of the traveller is attracted by the plantations and policy of Boquhan, the property of General Campbell, and by Gargunnock-house, the seat of Colonel Edinton.

The parish of STIRLING is confined to the town, and a small portion of land between it and the Forth. The approach to Stirling is delightful; the town and castle, at a distance, strike every traveller with their resemblance to Edinburgh, particularly from the south-east. A terrace walk is formed round the bottom of the rock, which commands a prospect not easily described. It was planned and constructed by Mr Edmonstone in 1723, and bears his name. On the flat below the castle, there are the marks of inclosures, and divisions on a piece of ground, where the tournaments were held; the rock above, where the ladies of the court sat to view them, still goes by the name of the Ladies rock. The town, which is a royal burgh and presbytery seat, and the castle, commanding one of the most extensive and noble prospects almost anywhere to be met with, are well known, and need not here be particularly described. The insulated mount of Craigforth, on which stands the mansion-house of Colonel Callendar, a little to the west of the castle, is a striking feature in the picture. Plaiding, coarse shalloons, and carpeting, have long been made here. These are in part yielding to the cotton manufacture. Stirling holds the fifth rank among the Scotish royal burghs, and was one of the Curia quatuor burgorum, a court which gave rise to the present convention of Royal Burghs. The castle was a favourite residence of James I. and was the birth-place of James II. In it too he perpetrated that atrocious deed upon the Earl of Douglas, which stains his memory. The room still goes by the name of Douglas's room. Adjoining the Castle is the Parliament House, and nearer it the Chapel-royal, both in ruins.

LOGIE, situated about two miles north from Stirling, lies in three shires, but chiefly in this. The surface is partly rich carse ground, and partly hilly, but very fit for pasture, being part of the Ochil hills. The ruins of the famous Abbey of Cambus-Kenneth, where James III. of Scotland was buried, and the Abbey of Craig, erected by Oliver Cromwell, stand here. So late as the year 1764, a silver mine was wrought on the estate of Airthrey. Copper and cobalt has also been found there.

ALVA, situated at the foot of the Ochil hills, is totally disjoined from the county of Stirling, though it belongs to it, being almost surrounded by Clackmannanshire. The greater part is hilly, affording excellent pasture for sheep. The mansion-house stands on an eminence projecting from the base of the hill; it is pleasantly situated and surrounded with thriving wood. On the grounds of. Alva a very rich silver ore has been discovered, yielding 12 ounces of silver from 14 of the ore, and it is said at one time to have produced L. 4000 per week to the proprietor while it lasted. On this estate there is also copper, lead, cobalt, and iron, but none at present wrought,

AIRTH stretches along the south side of the Forth. Except two small risings, called the hills of Airth and Dunmore, the parish is flat, and consists mostly of rich carse ground. There are two ferries, viz. Kersie, and Higgin's Neuk, and three harbours, in the parish. Part of the house of Airth is made up of Wallace's Tower, once the abode of that hero. There is also an old castle at Dunmore, and a third at Powfouls. At Airth and Dunmore, there is abundance of coal and freestone.

BOTHKENNAR is a small parish, situated in the carse of Falkirk. The surface is flat, and the soil a deep rich clay, which produces all kinds of grain.

FALKIRK is situated on the north road between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and nearly at an equal distance from both; the road to Stirling and the West Highlands also passes through it. The greater part of the parish is enclosed and subdivided. It has a rich and fertile appearance, from the number of gentlemen's seats and villas. The Carron-works, so well known, as well as several thriving villages, lie in this parish, such as Grangemouth, Laurieston, Brainsford, and Camelon. Besides several fairs and weekly markets, there are three cattle trysts in the year, where, exclusive of horses and sheep, it is computed that no less than 60,000 High.. land cattle are sold annually at these trysts. It was in the neighbourhood of Falkirk that the English army, under Edward I. gain

ed the famous victory over the Scots, fighting under Sir William Wallace and Sir John the Graham, and in which the latter was killed, 22d July 1298. In the churchyard is to be seen a very elegant Latin epitaph to his memory.

Mente manuque potens, et Vallæ fides Achates,
Conditur hic Gramus, bello interfectus ab Anglis.

Thus Englished by the schoolmaster of the parish:

Of mind and courage strong, and Wallace' true Achates,
Here lies Sir John the Graham, kill'd by the English Baties.

For a description of this road, see Lanarkshire, Vol. I. p. 186.

To Inverary.

See road from Edinburgh to Inverary, Vol. I. p. 76.