Gazetteer of Scotland

CLE
C LO
The Clackmannan farmer club, which
was instituted nearly 20 years ago by
the gentlemen farmers in the county.
There are two extenfive diftilleries, at
Kilbagie and Kennetpam ; at the laft
of which is a tolerable harbour. On
the eftate of Lord Cathcart, the De-
von Iron Company have erected ex-.
tenfive furnaces and machinery ; pear
which the thriving village of Newton-
Jhaw is lately built. Coal and lime-
stone abound every where, of the belt
quality ; and there is plenty -of free-
itone, fit for building. Near the town
itands a beautiful modem houfe, the
property of Mr. Bruce of Kennet.
The old tower of Clackmannan is faid
to have been biuit by King Robert
Bruce, and was long the chief feat of
the family of Bruce in Scotland, Po-
pulation in 1 79 1, 2518.
CLATT ; a village and parifh in the
diftrict of Garioch, Aberdeenfhire. It
is lituated very high, fur-rounded with
lofty hills, and fubject to be deluged
with heavy rains. The foil is various,
hut in general of excellent quality, and
ealily cultivated. Were the climate as
favourable as the foil, few diftricts in
the county would rival it in fertility.
Improvements and enclofures are yet
in their infancy: indeed, the fmall
farms, and the fhortnefs of the leafes,
are an effectual bar to all improve-
ments. A fmall river, Gadie, takes its
rife here, and afterwards becomes a
branch of the Urie. Granite is to be
found in moll places, very tit for build-
ing, and eaiily wrought ; and veins
of beautiful variegated marble have
been difcovered in front of Craig-hill,
which have as yet been neglected. The
village of Clatt was erected a burgh
of barony, with power to hold weekly
and annual markets. The fuperiority
belongs to the family of Gordon of
Knockefpock, who have done every
thing in their power to render it a
place of coniequence. The great fouth
road, leading directly north from the
Cairn o' Mount, paries through the vil-
lage. Population ofthepariihin 1792,
425-
CLEISH ; a parifh of Kinrofsfhire,
lituated along the N. fide of thofe hills
which bound that county on the S.
extending in length about 6 miles,
and in breadth rather more than 1.
The foil is various ; at the bottom of
£he hills it is a ftrong clay, and very
fertile; the middle is gravelly, and the
hilly part cold and tilly. There are
feveral fine lakes amongft the hills,
which abound with pike, perch, eel,
and a few trouts. The rivulets which
proceed from the lakes have numerous
falls of water, well adapted for the e-
rection of machinery. Mr. Adam of
Mf'tyburgh, the proprietor, has given
an excellent example to his neigh-
bours in the improvement of land, by
enclofures, plantations, &c. and his
example is now pretty generally fol-
lowed. There is great plenty of ex-
cellent freeftone; and limeftone is alio
found, but at fo great a depth, that
it is not confidered &s an object of
importance. Coal is alfo found in the
neighbourhood of Marjbttrgb ; but
Mr. Adam has declined working it,
on account of its vicinity to his houfe.
The hills are chiefly compofed of
whinftone. The road from Queens-
ferry tfi Perth paffes through this pa-
rifh. On feveral of the hills are the
remains of forts, apparently conftruct-
ed with great labour ; they are fup-
pofedto be Roman, and to have form-
ed a chain of polls to defend their
conquefts from their northern ene-
mies ; feveral urns containing human
bones and afhes have been dug up
near thefe fortifications. Population
in 1792, 653,
C.LOSEBURN ; a parifh in the dis-
trict of Nithfdale, county of D umities ?
the greateft extent of which is from 9
to 10 miles in length, and the fame in
breadth. The river Nitii forms the
W. boundary, along which the foil is
a fine rich loam ; to the eaftwarclj the
ground rifes a little, and the foil be-
comes light, dry, and iandy ; the E.
diftrict is covered with extenfive muirs,
unfit for tillage, but affording excel-
lent pafture for fheep. The principal
are ^ten/berry, Carrick Hills, and
Auchinleck ; from the firft of thefe,
which is elevated 2000 feet above the
level of the fea, the Duke of Queenf-
berry takes his title. Befxdes the Nith ?
the fmall rivulet Crubup, noted for
the romantic linn, called Cricbup linn,
runs through the parifh. There is no
coal nearer than 14 miles; but the
limeworks of Clofeburn are very ex-
tenfive, and have proved molt benefi-
cial to the county. There are about
200 acres of natural wood, and 350
acres of thriving plantation. The caf-
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