Volume 1
The statistical account of Scotland. : Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes / By Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
- Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1791-1799
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The statistical account of Scotland. : Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes / By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![fons, the Ifla and Ericht prove very prejudicial to the adja- cent fields. Increaled by many rapid torrcts, they overflow their banks, and fometimes, with refiftlels force, I'weep away whole harvefts, and ruin the well earned trealures of thd labouring year. The Oean flows from the lake of Forfar, pafl'es by Glammis Caftle, in meanders glides gently along the north borders of EfTay and Meigle, and ioics itfclf in the Ifla, half a mile N. N. W. of the town of Meigle. T he courfe of this river, in a dire<n: line, does not exceed 10 mdes. Acrofs it is a narrow and badly conftrudted bridge, in the road from Cupar to Kirriemuir. A rivalet originates in Kinpurnie-hill, runs N. W. through the panfli of NTewtyle, waters the weftern part of this panfh^ and augments the Dean a mile above the influx of that river into the ifla. Antiquities.—There are many remains of antiquity in this parifli and neighbourhood; but, with regard to thefe, tra- dition gives us little mformation, and antient records ftill lefs; The accounts handed dov?n through each I'ucceeding genera- tion are grofsly corrupted. The tales and flories related by fabulous writers are, for the moft part, too wild and extra- vagant to merit belief. Abandoning, therefore, all iuch le- gends to thofe who can rind mflruction or entertainment ia them, we fhall proceed to a review of the moft remarkable monuments of antiquity in this corner, taking notice of the moft plaufible conjedtures concerning them. In the inclofures of Belmont there is a tumulus called BeUi' duff, which tradition will have to be the fpot v.'here ]>Jacbeth Vol, I. 3 S foughe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21365799_001_0521.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
