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illude in the church of Cambuslnng, on a Monday
after a communion, to the revival in the following
terms : He had been speaking of the time and place
in which God had been pleased to afford extraordi-
nary manifestations of his power and grace in the
conversion of sinners, and in comforting and strength-
ening his people, and he added, ' Such was Bethel
to the Patriarch Jacob, Tabor to the three disciples,
and such was this place about seventy-six years ago,
of whom I am told some witnesses remain to this
present hour, but the greater part are fallen asleep.'
If any one is still so bold as to allege that the work
at Cambuslang was 'a work of the devil,' he will
find no countenance from the serious part of the in-
habitants of the district in which it took place. No
one ever attempted to justify every thing that was
said or done at that memorable period ; but, on the
other hand, it is hoped that the warmth of party
spirit will no longer prevent good men from admit-
ting what even the correspondent of Mr. Wishart of
Edinburgh was constrained to acknowledge in re-
gard to the revival in New England at that time,
'that an appearance so much out of the ordinary
wav, and so unaccountable to persons not acquainted
with the history of the world, was the means of
awakening the attention of many, and that a good
number settled into a truly Christian temper.'"
CAMBUSMICHAEL. See St. M.vrtins.
CAMBUSNETHAN, a parish in the middle ward
of Lanarkshire; hounded on the north by Shotts
parish; on the east by Whitburn anil West Calder
in Linlithgowshire ; on the south by Carnwath, Car-
stairs, Carluke, and Dalserf parishes ; and on the
west by Dalserf, Hamilton, and Dalziel. It extends
in a north-east direction from the Clyde on the west,
nearly 12 miles in length ; and is on an average
about 3 miles in breadth. Its superficies is about
26.000 acres, of which nearly one-third is cultivated;
and about 160 acres are laid out as orchard-grounds.
The baughs on the Clyde are extensive and beauti-
ful. On the bank, which rises above the haugh-
grounds, the soil is clay, covered with extensive
orchards, which are well-sheltered from the north
and east winds by coppice- woods, and regular planta-
tions. Farther up the soil becomes mossy, or mixed
with a black sand peculiarly unfavourable for vege-
tation. The highest grounds are on the eastern side
of the parish, where they attain an elevation of
about 900 feet. The South Calder skirts the whole
northern boundary of this parish; which is also di-
vided from Carluke by Gamon burn, a beautiful
little tributary of the Clyde. The banks of the
South Calder, for a considerable way above its
junction with the Clyde, are very finely wooded.
There is abundance of excellent coal wrought here ;
also ironstone and freestone. The Shotts iron com-
pany have two blast-furnaces at Stone or Stain, in
the east end of the parish. There are extensive tile-
works at Wishaw and at Coltness. One, near
Castlehill, turns out 8.000 tiles daily, or 2,504,000
in the year. The village of Camhusnethan or
Wishawtown, is 15 miles east of Glasgow, and
4^ west of Carluke, on the road from Glasgow
to Lanark. The inhabitants — 1,700 in number —
are chiefly weavers employed by the Glasgow manu-
facturers. There is an extensive distillery here.
The village of Stain has a population of about 600 ;
and Bonkle 200. The mansion-houses of Camhus-
nethan, Wishaw, Coltness, Allanton, and Muirhouse
within this parish, are all very handsome structures.
Population of the parish in 1801, 1,972; in 1831,
3,824,. Assessed property £9,271. Houses in 1831,
701. — This parish is in the presbytery of Hamilton
and synod of Glasgow and Ayr. Patron, Lockhart of
CaetlehilL Stipend £278 15s. 8d. Unappropriated
teinds £469 19s. 5d. A new parish-church is now
building; the old church, built in 1650, seated 660.
— .A United Secession congregation was established
at Danes Dikes in 1738. Church first built in 174U;
rebuilt in 17S0 ; and the pivsent one in 1818, at
Bonkle. 2 miles westward of the original site, cost
£800: sittings 560. Stipend £l20.\vith a manse
and trlebe. — A Relief congregation was established
at Wishawtown in 1822. Church built in 1822 ;
seats 740. Stipend £110, with manse and glebe.
— A Reformed Presbyterian congregation assembles
in Wishawtown. Church seats 350. Stipend £70,
with a manse and glebe. — Schoolmaster's salary £34
4s. 4Jd. In 1838 there were 9 schools in the parish,
attended bv 476 scholars.
CAMBUS VIC-HUSTAN, a small but safe har-
bour, in the shire of Sutherland and parish of Assent.
CAMBUS VIC-KER-CH1R, a safe and well-
sheltered harbour, except from the north-east gales,
in the parish of Assvnt, in Sutherland.
CAMBUS-WALLACE, in the shire of Perth
and parish of Killmadock ; 1 mile north-west of
Doune. Some years ago, several ancient graves
were discovered at Rosshall near this place ; and
tradition relates that a battle was once fought near
this spot between the families of Rosshall and
Craicton.
CAMELON, a village in the shire of Stirling and
parish of Falkirk ; at the distance of l.| mile north-
west from Falkirk ; on the line of the Forth and
Clvde canal. A handsome extension church was
built here in 1839, at a cost of £1,000; sittings
660. The population exceeds 1,000; nail-making
is the chief employment. Old Camelon, situated
about 5 furlongs without the gate where the Ro-
man road issued from the wall of Antoninus, about
half-a-mile tothe north-west, was a Roman town, and
a sea-port; and an anchor was dug up here in 1707.
There are many circumstances which authorize us to
conclude, not only that the river Carron has been
navigable farther up than the site of Old Camelon,
but also, that the sea at one time came very near to
Falkirk, and covered the whole of that district
which is now called The Carse. General Roy has
given a plan of Old Camelon in the 29th plate of his
' Military Antiquities ;' he supposes it to be the Ro-
man station Ail Vallum. Boece, and some others,
strangely confound this place with the Camelodunum
of Tacitus, now known to be St. Maldew in Essex.
CAMERON, a parish in the county of File;
bounded by St. Andrews on the north ; by Denino
on the east ; by Carnbce and Kilconquhar on the
south; and by Ceres on the west. It extends about
5 miles in length, by 4 in breadth ; and has a super-
ficial area of about 7,300 Scotch acres, of which
nearly 4,700 are under tillage. Coal and limestone
abound. At Priorletham is a remarkably fine syca-
more plane, supposed to be 450 years old. The vil-
lage lies about 4 miles south-west of St. Andrews.
Population, in 1801, 1,095; in 1831, 1,207. As-
sessed property, in 1815, £8,349. Land rental, in
1838, £8,600. Houses, in 1831, 238.— This parish
is in the presbytery of St. Andrews and synod of
Fife. It was separated from St. Andrews in 1645.
Church built in 1808; sittings 495. Stipend £199
12s. 8d., with a glebe of the value of £10. Unap-
propriated teinds £149 13s. lOd. — There is a Seces-
sion church at Lathones — Parochial schoolmaster's
salary £34 4s. 44(1., with about £10 fees. There
are two private schools, — one at Lawhead, the other
at Denhead.
CAMERON-BRIDGE, a hamlet in the parish of
Libberton; 1£ mile south of Edinburgh, on the road
to Dalkeith. — There is also a village of this name
in the parish of Markinch in Fifeshire.