(once prior of Durham) that might be the reafon it was conftnii
in a fimilar ilyle*. From this time the celebrated Jona loft!
honor of being the cemetery of the Scottijh monarchs. Malcolm 4 his queen, and fix other kings +, lie here ; the two firft apart, ttj
others under as many flat Hones, each nine feet long.
In the church is the tomb of Robert Pitcairn, abbot, or rati
commendator, ofDumfermline, fecretary of Hate in the beginnin«!
the reign of James VI. in the regency of Lenox. He was of Mm\
faftion, and was fent to the court of Elizabeth,, to follicit the delivel
of Mary Stuart into the hands of the king’s party He attend!
James in his confinement, after the Raid of Ruthven, and artful
endeavoured to make friends with each fide ; but, failing, was i|
prifoned in Lochleven caftle, and died in 1584. His epitaph fen
his virtues in a very high light:
Hie iitus eft Iieros modica Rohertut in urns
Pitcarnus, patriss Ipes columenque fuse :
Quem virtus, Gravitas generofo pe&ore digna
Ornabant vera et cum pietate fides.
Poft varios vitse ftudtus jam mole relidta
Corporis, Elyfium pergit in umbra nemus.
S e p t . 16.. Leave Dumfermline. At a diftance is pointed out to me a
planted with trees, called the penitent-mount, from a vulgar nonol
that it was formed by facks full of fand, brought there from diltanl
places by the frail, by way of penance for their fins. At Chat M
flruck with the magnificence of the profpedt, extending weft to BiM
* Boethius, lib. x ii. p. 260.
t Edgar, Alexander I . D a v id I . Malcolm IV . Alexander II. and Roltrt ZrmM
t M elv il’s Memoirs, 212.
Imtim
unvrJ, and eaft to Old-Cambus •, a view of the whole Forth, and the
ladles of Edinburgh and Stirling, two moll .capital objefts.
I Defcend towards the fhcjre; and near it, reach the L im e - k i l n s ,
belonging to the Earl of Elgin, the greatefi: perhaps in the uni-
lerfe; placed amidft inexhauftible~beds of lime-ftones, and near
Immenfe feams of coal. The kilns are placed in a row ; their
Ipenings are beneath a covered way, formed, by arches and pillars
In front, into a magnificent colonnade. They lie beneath the ilrata
i f limeftone, which, when broken, is conveyed into them by variety
i f rail roads j and forihipping the lime, either burnt or crude, is a
lonvenient pier. A hundred and twenty men are conilantly employed,
and a little town built for them. Above twelve thoufand
»ounds has been expended on this ufeful projeft, which promifes to
lurn out as much to the emolument of the noble family, which fo
fcnerouily engaged in it, as to the whole eaftern coaft of N. Britain,
■which either wants * this great fertilizer, or fuel to burn the Hone-
■hey ufelefsly pofiefs.
■ By the following account it is pleafing to obferve the improving
ftate of agriculture, and of building, in thefe parts of the
Kingdom; for the lait alfo oecafions a confiderable confumption :
Sold, from Martinmas, 1770, to ditto, 1771,
■7515 bolls of lime fhells, or unflaked lime,
■j“52t chalders of lime,.
carts of lime-ftone, - -
£. s. d.
- 2035 8 61 974 i i 9 864 13 Si-
3874 14 o.
F f From
L i m e -k i l n s ,