Gazetteer of Scotland

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to 3000I. worth will be fold at one
cutting. The printfields olDalquhurn
and Cordale are by far the moft con-
fiderable and extenflve in Scotland ;
the latter employs no fewer than 880
perfons. The village of Rent own, fitu-
ated on the eftate of Mr. Smollet of
Dalquhum, is rapidly increafing in
fize, and another village has lately been
built on the eftate of Graham of Garth-
more. Near the village of Rentoivn,
in theold maniion-houfe of Dalquhurn,
was born Br. Tobias Smollet, the well
known author of Roderic Random, and
other entertaining works. His " Hif-
tory of England," though perhaps in-
ferior to Hume or Robertfon in refine-
ment of thought and political obferva-
tion, is noted for the beauties of def-
cription, and the ready delineation of
character. After a chequered life of
51 years, he died at Leghorn, whither
he had gone for the recovery of his
health, in 1771. Adjacent to the place
of his nativity, Mr. Smollet of Bonhill,
his coufin, has erected a lofty column
to his memory, with an elegant Latin
infcription. Population of Cardrofs
in 1793, 2194.
CARGILL ; a parifh in Perthfhire,
fituated in the valley of Strathmore.
It is nearly an oblong fquare, about 6
miles in length, and from 4 to 5 in
breadth. The furface is finely diver-
fified with wood and water, and varie-
gated by gentle afcents and declivities,
riling gradually to a ridge for about a
mile from the Tay, which bounds it
on the N. ; it reaches a plain, which
extends to the Sidlaw hills, which
form the S. boundary : except the
wood lands, it is moftly arable, and
many improvements have been lately
made. The foil, on the banks of the
river, is a deep rich clay ; towards the
middle it is loamy ; at the foot of the
hills it becomes gravelly, and unpro-
ductive. Near the W. end of the pa-
rim, the Tay forms what is called the
Linn of Campfey, by falling over a
rugged bafaltic dyke, which crofTes
the river at this place, and is found to
extend in a right line many miles to
the N. and S. of the Tay. The Ifla
runs into the Tay about a mile above
the village of Cargill ; the fifheries on
both thefe rivers are of confiderable
value, and moftly all held in leafe by
a company in Perth. In former times
this pa$ifh abounded with wood ; at
prefent there are only about ioo acres
of natural coppices, and 400 acres of*
plantation. Several freeftone quarries,
of excellent quality and good colour,
have been wrought to a confiderable
extent ; limeftone alfo is found, and
might, it is faid, be wrought to good
account; there is alfo great abundance
of rock marl. Near the confluence
of the Tay and Ifla, are difcovered
plain veftiges of a Roman encamp-
ment ; ihefoja are perfectly diftinct,
and the aqueduct by which they were
filled from a neighbouring river, is in
a ftate of high prefervation. On a ro-
mantic rock, which rifes perpendicu-
larly over the Linn of Campfey, are
the ruins of an ancient religious houfe,
faid to have been dependent on the
abbey of Cupar. A Roman road, a-
bout 20 feet broad, compofed of rough
round ftones, rudely laid together,
paries along the high grounds. Stob-
hall, a feat of the family of Perth, is
an old fabric, fancifully fituated on a
narrow peninfula, on the banks of the
Tay. A confiderable manufacture of
brown linens and filefias is carried on
in the pariih, and 3 bleachfields have
been lately eftablifhed. There are 3
villages; one of which, named Strelitz,
in honour of her prefent Majefty, was
erected in 1763, as a place of refidence
for the difcharged foldiery, at the con-
clufion of the German war. Popula-
tion of the pariih of Cargill, as return-
ed to Sir John Sinclair in 1793, 1720.
Carity ; a fmall river, which takes
its fource in the pariih of Lintrathen,
county of Angus, and after a mean-
dering courfe of 5 miles, is loft in the
Southefk, at a fmall village called In-
vercarity, to which it gives its name.
Carletonhill, in the parifh of
Coimonell, in Ayrfhire, rifes with a
fteep afcent to the elevation of 1554
feet above the level of the fea. It is
fituated fo near the fea, at the bottom
of a bay of the fame name, that, at
full tide, there is little more than room
forthe traveller to pafs without danger,
from the rocks threatening on the one
hand, and of falling into the ocean
on the other.
CARLUKE ; a village and parifh
in the county of Lanark. The pariih
is about 7 miles in length, from the
Clyde to its boundary on the E. and
fully 44 miles in breadth. The fur-
face rife-, to a confiderable height in-