Gazetteer of Scotland

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while the valleys every where exhibit
beautiful expanfes of water, r ormed by
the Teath, which is immediately after
poured over perpendicular precipices.
Near Loch Lubnaig, the fcenery is
grand, and ornamented by the woods
and pleafure grounds of Kinnaird, the
hunting feat of the late Mr. Bruce,
the Abyffinian traveller. There is a
fine quarry of limeftone, or rather mar-
ble, on the eftate of Leney; the
ground of which is a deep blue, with
Sender variegated ftreaks of a pure
white. Slate of the fineft azure blue
and purple, are wrought in many
places. There is a remarkable vein,
or rather ridge of rocks, compofed
entirely of a coarfe phi?npudding-Jlonc,
which runs all the way from Callan-
der to Crief ; many pebbles and agates
are enclofed in the cementing matter,
which is uniformly of a dark brown
colour. In Benledi, fometime ago, a
vein of lead ore was difcovered, and
wrought for fometime; but the ex-
pence of working was found to be
greater than the produce, and it was
given up. On the burn of Kelly is a
cafcade 50 feet in height. There are
feveral remains of extenfive fortifica-
tions on many of the hills ; and near
the manfe is the foundation of an old
fquare caftle, built or repaired in
1596, by Livingftone Earl of Linlith-
gow. Drummond of Perth, is the
principal proprietor.
The village of Callander is of confi-
derable extent, fituated on both fides
of the Teath, and built on a regular
plan ; the houfes are good, and cover-
ed with flate. A fettlement for the
foldiers, difcharged after the German
war, was eftabliihed here by govern-
ment in 1763 ; fince which time Cal-
lander has been gradually increafing.
Of late it has been much extended by
the introduction of the cotton manu-
facture. In the weaving of muflin,
about roo looms are employed in Cal-
lander, and the adjoining village of
KUmahog ; and upwards of 100 girls
find employment in a tambour work.
The church ftands on one lide of a
fort of fquare, in the middle of the
village ; it has a pavilion roof, with a
fpire over the pediment, which is a
great ornament to the place. John
Hamilton Buchannan, Efq. of Leflfey,
is fuperior and proprietor of the vil-
lage, which contair.3 upwards of icoo
CAM
inhabitants. The population of the
parifh of Callander (including the vil-
lages of Callander and Kilmahogj a-
mounted in 179.3 to 2100.
CALLIGRAY j one of the weftern
ifles, in the diftrict of Harries. It is
fituated about \\ league E. of Beme-
ray, and is about 1 miles long, and 1
broad. The S. end of the ifland is a
deep mofs, almoft entirely uncultivat-
ed. The N. end is an early foil, which
is cultivated with care. Here, as well
as in the other iflands of the diftrict,
the inhabitants live by fifhing, and the
manufacture of kelp. In the N. end
of the ifland are the faint traces of a
very ancient building, called Teampull
na b'slnnait, the temple of Annat, a
goddefs of the Saxon mythology, who
prefided over young maidens. There
is alfo a well, called Tobar na h' An-
nait, where the worfhippers are fup-
pofed to have purified themfelves.
CAMBRAY, CUMBRAY, or CIM-
BRAES; an ifland in the Frith of
Clyde, diftant from the coaft of Ayr-
fhire about 2. miles ; from the ifland
of Bute, (to which it is attached in
the county divifions), about 3 miles,
and feparated from the Little Cam-
bray, upon the S. by a channel of
three quarters of a mile broad. The
length of the ifland from N. E. to S. W.
is ai miles ; the breadth from E. to W.
about a mile and a half. The furface
contains about 3300 acres, one third
of which is, or might be cultivated.
With a few exceptions, the hills rife
with a gentle afcent to the center
of the ifland, where they are elevated
nearly 400 feet above the level of the
fea. The foil is jn general a gravelly
loam, and in fome places a mixture
of clay. There are a few enclofures ;
and fome plantations have been lately
made by the Earl of Glafgow, who
is proprietor of the greateft part of
the ifland. A conliderable manufac-
ture of coarfe linen is carried on in
rhe village of Milnport, which is plea-
fantly fituated on the S. W. fide of
j the ifland. Here is a commodious
dry harbour, where in fpring tides
! there is water to the height of 11 feet*
j There is alfo a fafe anchorage, fhelter-
• ed by a reeky iflet. There is plenty
1 of limeftone, and an inexhauftible fund
I of excellent fiveftone, of which laft
' there i3 expert a to the value of 200L
\per aumn-.. There are 2 roqks on the £<• '