The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, KincardineW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 |
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Aberlemno acres agriculture Airlie amount ANGUS AND MEARNS annual appears arable Arbroath attended average number barley belonging bolls Bolshan Brechin built burgh Careston castle chalders chapel chiefly Clova considerable crop cultivated distance district Dundee Dunnichen Earl east employed erected Established church extent farm feet females Finhaven Forfar former glebe grass ground heritors hill imperial acres improvement inhabitants Inverkeilor Kinnettles kirk-session Kirriemuir labour land late loch Lord Panmure Lunan manse manufactures miles minister Montrose nearly neighbourhood number of families number of persons Oathlaw oats Ogilvy parish parish church parochial pasture planted poor population potatoes PRESBYTERY present proprietor quarries rent residence rish river rocks sandstone Scotch Scotland Sir James Carnegie situated soil St Vigeans stipend stone Strathmore SYNOD OF ANGUS Tannadice teinds tion TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL town turnips upwards Usan V.-PAROCHIAL ECONOMY village wheat whole wood
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19. oldal - He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. 21 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
55. oldal - Indian penetrates the dark curtain, which separates time and eternity, and believes in the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the body, not only of all mankind, but of all animated nature, and a state of future existence, of endless duration.
285. oldal - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
277. oldal - Kincardineshire, an illustration was afforded at the close of the last century, of the effect of promontories in protecting a line of low shore. The village of Mathers, two miles south of Johnshaven, was built on an ancient shingle beach, protected by a projecting ledge of limestone rock. This was quarried for lime to such an extent that the sea broke through, and in 1795 carried away the whole village in one night, and penetrated 150 yards inland, where it has maintained its ground ever since, the...
283. oldal - Pot,) the barons had prepared a fire and a boiling cauldron, into which they plunged the unlucky sheriff. After he was sodden (as the King termed it) for a sufficient time, the savages, that they might literally observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth.
347. oldal - The perpetrators of that horrid deed fled with precipitation eastward, during night, when the fields were covered with snow. By mistake, they directed their flight across the Loch of Forfar, where they perished. On one side of the monument there are the figures of two men, who, by their attitude, seem to be forming the bloody conspiracy. A lion and a centaur on the upper part, represent, as is supposed, the shocking barbarity of the crime. On the reverse of the monument several sorts of fishes are...
346. oldal - ... different localities still pointed out in the shires of Fife and Forfar, as well as in the counties around. The old Castle of Glammis, a venerable and majestic pile of building, has several fairy legends connected with it. In an underground part of this old edifice, there was a secret room, which was only known to two, or at most three, individuals, at the same time, and these were bound not to reveal it, but to their successors in the secret.
33. oldal - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
485. oldal - Aberdeenshire and Mearns, paying considerable rents. It consists of one large well-lighted room with four windows, a good stove or fire-place, a wooden floor, with benches, chairs, and a table. At the end is a kitchen, in which their victuals are cooked by a servant, whose business it is to attend to the bortstue and cook for the people. The space above is divided into bedrooms, each with a window ; and the doors lead into a covered gallery open at the side, such as we still see in some of the old...
473. oldal - The fact has already been alluded to, that, in 1299, when Sir William Wallace had resigned the guardianship of Scotland and retired to France, the Northern lairds of Scotland sent Squire Guthrie to request his return, in order to assist in opposing the English. The Castle of Guthrie to which the present laird has added a...