The Statistical Account of Scotland Volume 3; Drawn Up from the Communication of the Ministers of the Different Parishes

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 Excerpt: ...parish exports, to different places in the neighbourhood, several articles of provision, such as meal, grain, butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, black cattle, sheep, and some honey. And it is almost solely by their exports, together with their linen yarn, that they are able to pay theorems, and procure a subsistence. Language. lœnguagt.--The language now spoken is a ffialeJl of the English; but the names of many places seem to indicate, that the Earse, or Gaelic, had formerly been the vulg.ir language. Many of these names are plainly derived from that language, and are in some measure descriptive of the places to which they serve as names. Cu.'/euc/iar, from cult a ba-ck place or corner, and uachder uppermost or highest, signisies the highest corner or back place. Rojsw signisies a head of land near water. Bunion, compounded of bun the foot, and. ion land, signisies the-foot of the land, D'ub signisies a chasm, gully, or ditch. Gcdilk,n a word, signifying the hills if that name, is purely English, and seems to be compounded of oak and 'bilk, as tf.the y/ord were written Oak-kills. Cbunh and $tipead.-The whole emoluments of the living, Same and glebe included,.amount to about L. ico Sterling. This parish was formerly in the-diocese of the Bishop oY Dunkeld; and, therefore, the right of patronage is supposed tti be vested in.the Crown. The church, from a date upon the aisle, is supposed to hafve been built about 400 years age. The manse is of about 54 7ears standing. Both of them We at different times undergone-various repairs. Tht number of heritors is 1 "7; of the.fe eight are resident, the other nine, non-resident. Futl.--The fuel commonly used here in summer is furze, "broom, wood, and sprays, or branches of trees. Tiie parish produces very lit...