twelve millions of yards are annually exported from Pjrth. Much
flax is raifed here, and the country is full of Corn, but hot fuf-
ficient to' fupply the numerous inhabitants. Late at night reach
Inchfttithel, the modem Ddvirt, the feat of John Malkenfie*, Efq;
where I found a continuation of highland hofpitali'ty.
The fituation of this houfe is of Arrange Angularity; On a flat of
a hundred and fifty-four Scotch acres f , regularly fteep on every
fide, and in every part of equal height -, that is to fay, about fixty
feet above the great plain of Stormont-, which it Hands oh. The
figure is alfo remarkable, and muc.h better to be exprelftd by the
engraving than by any defcriptioh of mine.
Two nations took advantage of this natural ftrength, and fitu-
ated themfelves on it. The Pills, the long pofieffors of thefe
eaftern parts of the kingdom, in all probability had here an oppi-
dnm, or town, fuch as uncivilized people inhabited in early times;
often in the midft of woods, and fortified all round with a dike.
Here we find the veflriges of fuch a defence $ a mound of ftones
tdW.Maikenfie's father, who was a good antiquary, held this to have been
part o f the land granted by Kenneth to the gallant Hay, the hero o f the battle o f
Loncary, whofe defcendcnts poffefled it four or five centuries.
+ The difference between the roeaftres o f land in Scotland, and thofe ufed in
England, is in proportion to the Scats fell o f fix Scots ells length, and the Englijh
perch, which by ftatnte is in length five yards and a half, whereby the acres
Sand thus r One Scots acre is one acre, one rood, and one perch Englijh ; too
Scots acres is 125 acres, two roods, 33 perches': fo that the proportion is nearly
as four is to five— It is to be obferved, that there is no ftatnte for th e Scots 5 a" 1’ as thcre ls for the Englijh; only a very bid cufto'm, which feems to have
een rought from the Paris Royal Arpent, which is nearly the fame with that
s .V at Prefeat in Scotland, and called the Scots acre.
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