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FIRTH OF FORTH (Continued) [continued from page 9]
and heaved up by sandbanks, it is now - with the appliances of light-houses on Inch-Keith and May Island, and of accurately drawn and minute charts - so signally safe as to be hardly ever the scene of a shipwreck. The amount of trade on its waters was materially increased by the opening of the Forth and Clyde Canal, and had been not a little augmented by the introduction and progressively improving application of the propelling power of steam. On both shores from Borrowstonness downwards, are numerous salt-works; and along the coasts, as well as inland near the banks of the river, are vast repositories of coal, limestone, and ironstone; and these, along with the extensive and multitudinous fisheries, attract a very numerous resort of vessels. The frith abounds with white fish of all kinds, and is ploughed by fleets of fishing-boats from Newhaven, Fisherrow, and other fishing villages, procuring supplies for the daily markets of Edinburgh, and for the markets of other towns. At Stirling, Alloa, Kincardine, and numerous other places, are valuable fisheries of salmon. An annual shoal of herrings generally visits the frith, and, in some years, has yielded a prodigious produce; but its fish are esteemed decidedly inferior in quality to those of the western coasts of Scotland.
At Cramond and Inchmikery were formerly vast beds of oysters; but from over-fishing, the have been much exhausted; and they also yield a fish which, in quality and size, is generally not inferior to that obtained in many paces on the British coasts." Extract from Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland.

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