Iced near the ihore, in former times the feat of the Moutrays.
■little farther is Kinghorn, a fmall town and borough. The caftl'e
is one of the feats of the kings of Scotland, till. the time of Ro-
lk/ II. who, giving his daughter in marriage to Sir John Lyon,
Jed this town in part of portion. At this place is the ferry be-
jen the county of Fife and the port of Leith, a trajecl of feven
Biles. Below this town, on the rocks, grows the ligufticum Scoti-
jtf», or Scotch parfley, the ßrnis of the Hebrides; where it is often
fiten raw as a fallad, or boiled inftead of greens. The root is
Teemed a good carminative ; and an infufion of the leaves in
they is ufed there as a purge for calves.
lOppofite to Kinghorn, nearly in the I middle of the firth, lies
h-kdth, an iiland of about a mile in length, It is 'faid to derive
its name from the gallant Keith, who fo greatly fignalized himfelf
:by his valour in ioro,. in the battle of Barry, in Angus, againft the
'Mts-, after which he received in reward the barony of Keith, in
Man, arid this little ifle. This feems to be the place that Bede
fells Caer-Guidi, there being no other that will fuit the fituation he
Ives it in the middle of the Forth*. His tranflator renders Caer by
pie word city ; but it fhould be rendered a fort or poft, which will
give probability to Bede’s account.
■In 1549 the Engliflj fleet, fent by Edward VI- to aflift the lords of
■e congregation againft the queen dowager, landed, and began to
•my this iiland-f, of the importance of which they grew fenfible
Wet their negledt of fecuring the port of Leith, fo lately in their
lower. They left here five companies to cover the workmen under
* H iß . Keel, lib. I , c . 12, Leßy, 4 7g ,
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