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Title: The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Wilson, John Marius
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Publisher: London A. Fullarton
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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of the way,following now the ridges and now the rills of theOchils, that it cannot be succinctly described. Fromthe south-east extremity, it recedes nearly 5 milesdue north, up the South Devon, across the Devon,and along a generally artificial path; it then proceeds17 milesehiefly westward and partly south- westward,across the Ochils and Strathallan, guided most of theway by a range of heights, by a tributary of the Allan,and by the Allan itself, till, deviating from that river,it falls upon the Forth just at the confluence withit of the Teirh. Except for cutting off a few farmsin the parish of Kippen, immediately west of thevillage of Kippen, and some others stretching fromGartmore through a hilly country toward Benlomond,—except for cutting off these, which belong to Perth-shire, and lie on the south side of the river, the boun-dary-line now runs undeviatingly up the Forth, andits southern head-stream, the Duehray, till within 3Jmiles of Benlomond: and it then, for 6 miles, passes
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PERTHSHIRE. 599 PERTHSHIRE. nlong a ridge of heights; it next, for 6 miles, crossesLoch-Arclet, and the upper part of Loch-Katrine,and runs up the northern head-water of the Forthnearly to its source; and it finally, for 7 miles, walksalong the heights round the head of Loch-Lomond,crosses Glenfalloch at a point less than a mile northof that givat lake, and passes up a tributary of theFalloch, through Lochanlarig, on to Crochrechan,the point whence we commenced our delineation. The county lies between 56° 4 and 56° 57 northlatitude; and between 3° 4 and 4° 50 longitude westof Greenwich. Its extreme length from Invergow-rie on the east, to the top of Benloy on the west, is77 miles; and its extreme breadth, from the boun-dary of the east forest of Athole at the source of theTilt on the north, to the frith of Forth at Culross onthe south, is 68 miles. Its superficial extent, wereits form quadrangular, would be 5,236 square miles;but, allowing for the rounding away of the angles,and f

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