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From this table it will be seen that, as usual in the West of
Scotland, the rainfall is heavier than that of the country as a
whole.

Occupations. - In the northern part of the county, between
Loch Lomond and Loch Long, the population is almost entirely
rural, and is engaged in sheep and dairy farming and agriculture.
Along the shores of the lochs there is a growing residential
population, largely an overflow from Glasgow attracted by con-
siderations of scenery and health, and by the steamboat and
railway facilities. The Vale of Leven is a hive of busy industry,
the population being almost entirely engaged in the large dye-
works, printfields, bleachfields, forges, shipbuilding yards, &c.,
that line the banks of the river from Loch Lomond to the Clyde.
Of the string of towns - Jamestown, Bonhill, Alexandria, Renton,
and Dunbarton - on the banks of the Leven, only the last named
is a burgh, all the others being under the charge of the County
Council and District Committee. Eastward from Dunbarton
burgh, along the shores of the Clyde and on the higher lands rising
behind, the occupations are various - shipbuilding, sewing machine
making, canal working, iron working, cloth working, mining,
farming, &c. In the detached portion of the county, mining
prevails very largely, the rest of the population being employed
chiefly on the land.

Parishes and Districts. - The County consists of twelve
parishes, which, for Local Government purposes, have been
grouped into two Districts, the Western and the Eastern, the
former having the greater area and population, and the latter the
greater valuation.
The following table gives the area and population:-

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TABLE III.

[Table inserted]

* Including 949 Navvies on West Highland Railway.
Ϯ The total area of Dunbarton Burgh is 517 acres, but the division of this acreage between the two portions of Dunbarton and
Cardross is merely estimated.

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