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ABERNETHY [parish] Abernethy
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New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
Fullarton's Gazeteer
Sheriff's List of Meresmen
Oliver. &. Boyd's Almanack
Johnston's Co. [County] map
Old Stat. Acct. [Statisitical Account]
Valn. [Valuation] Roll of Co. [County] 1857-8
Pocket Commercial Gazetteer of Scotland
Stobies Co. [County] map.
110 ; 111 [Situation] In the SE. [South East] side of Perthsire A parish partly and cheifly in Perthshire and partly in Fifeshire bounded on the north by the River Earn which separates it from the parishes of Dunbarney and Rhynd and by the estuary of the Tay. On the east and the south by Fifeshire and on the west by the parishes of Dron and Dunbarney. This parish is of an irregular figure. It extends from east to west about 4 miles and from north to South in some places nearly five miles. The surface is uneven; a considerable part is hilly and belongs to a ridge of hills called the Ochil Hills. The low ground betwixt the rivers Tay and Earn on the north and hills on the South forms nearly an oblong square of about 4 miles in length by about 1½ in breadth. About 25 feet below the Surface of this flat and about 4 feet below the highest Spring tide mark in the Tay and Earn is uniformly found a stratum of moss from 1 to 3 feet thick. This moss is composed of remains of oak, aller, hazle, birch, &c. this soil above this bed is Composed of Strata of clay and sand. The town of Abernethy claims
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