Salmon and cod barrels, and falmon-kits, (befides fupplying these articles to the trade

in Peterhead), which are exported,

For lobsters exported to London,

Shoes, turnery goods, and ropes from the ropery, exported,

Beef, ale, and bread, to ftranger fhips,

Increase on the thread-manufactures in 1795, 2000.

N. B. Fractions in the above abstract are omitted.

From the above abstract it appears, that the trade of this town is above L. yo,ooo. If I had ftated the money fupposed to be left by the company who attend the mineral well, and the amount of the trade carried on by merchants refiding in the town, but which cannot properly be faid to belong to this port, by which I do not mean any illicit trade, I have no doubt the trade of the town of Peterhead would be found to exceed L. 100,coc Sterling each year.

P. S. Upon revifing this abftract feveral weeks after it was finished, I am fenfible fome deductions will be made, as the Meffrs Kilgours do not refide in this town, and part of the victual, butter, and cheefe are exported by merchants, who have their refidence elsewhere; but having likewife discovered, that no mention is made of cart

wheels,

wheels, leather, and dye-ftuffs imported here, nor any va lue fet upon the carts, cart-wheels, ploughs, labouring utenfils, and household-furniture, fent to the country, which is very confiderable, and that no statement is made of the freights drawn for fhips employed in trade not connected with this port, I am very confident I have no reason to make the amount of the trade lefs than I have reprefented it; and if I were to make any alterations, it would be only to show, that the trade probably is confiderably above L. 100,000.

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NUMBER XXIX.

PARISH OF LON MAY,

(COUNTY AND SYNOD OF ABERDEEN, AND PRESBYTERY OF DEER).

From Materials collected by Mr JOHN LUNDIE,
Minister of Lonmay.

Name, Situation, and Extent.

HIS parish at different times has been named St Colm,

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from the name of the faint to whom the old church was dedicated, and Longmay, Longmey, and Lonmay, from the name of the estate on which the church now ftands.

It is fituated in the presbytery of Deer, and in the Synod and county of Aberdeen. Its length is 10 English miles; its greatest breadth scarcely four miles. It is bounded on the S. E. by Crimond; on the S. by Longfide and Old Deer; on the S. W. by Brechin; on the W. and N. E. by Rathen; and on the E. by the German Ocean.

Soil

Soil and Climate.-The foil of the parish is various. The air, especially on the coaft, is rather moist, but not unhealthy.

Mineral Springs.-There are many mineral fprings in the parish, but they have never been analyzed; and from the celebrity of the mineral well of Peterhead, at 12 miles distance, they are little used.

Lake. There is only one lake, lying on the boundary betwixt the parishes of Lonmay and Crimond. It is now called the loch of Strathbeg. It was formerly a fmall rivulet, called indifferently the burn of Strathbeg, and water of Rattray. Buchanan calls it Ratra amnis. By a ftorm the nouth of it was fhut up, and fucceffive banks of fand have been thrown up by the fea, and the rivulet has, in the course of a little more than a century, become a lake of 550 Scotch, or 700 English acres. For feveral years paft it has not increased in magnitude; the evaporation from the furface being equal to the quantity of water emptied into the lake. Were a perfon to measure with tolerable accuracy the quantity of water which runs into this lake, it would poffibly afford data for proving, that the evaporation from the Cafpian Sea is fufficient to counterbalance all the water poured in from the rivers which empty themfelves into it. An attempt has been lately made to drain the lake of Strathbeg; but the perfon who made the attempt failed in his circumftances, which has fufpended the work. It is faid, however, that he is foon to refume it. His reward is a long lease of the grounds covered by the lake: The fishes contained in this lake are, red and white trout, eels, flounders, and large fresh water muscles, commonly called pearl muscles. No pearls, however,

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however, have been found in the muscles taken out of this lake.

The foil in the bottom of this lake is not deep, but is feemingly of a marly nature, owing, perhaps, to musclefhells decayed.

Rivers, c.-No navigable rivers run through the parish, but a confiderable stream, one of the branches of the Ugie, runs by the north and fouth-eaft boundaries. A canal could be carried along both branches of the Ugie at no great expence, and with the moft beneficial confequences to the agriculture and commerce of Buchan.

This parish has above four miles of coast, and the shore is flat and fandy. The fpecies of fish caught on this coast are turbot, holibut, plaice, skate, ling, cod, fand-eel, haddock, whiting, cole-fish, flounders, foles, and mackaral. Sometimes, but rarely, fea-bream, wraffe, and dorce. Herring also are found, but there are no herring-nets. One trial was made of fishing for falmon, and was tolerably fuccefsful.

Sea-wreck of several kinds is found on the coast; and kelp is made, but in small quantities.

There are two fishing-towns belonging to Mr Gordon of Buthlaw. One of thefe was lately built, and confists of 20 tiled houses, placed in two parallel rows, with a street in the middle.

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Moses. There are feveral extenfive moffes in this parish. A large one belongs to Mr Milne of Crimond-mo-; gate, another to Mr Cumming of Kinithmont. other heritors, Mr Duff of Logie, fon of the late Admiral Duff, Mr Biffet of Rathon, and Mr Frafer of Park, have also moffes, which abound in the whole district of Buchan.

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Minerals,