Excerpt from A Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan, 1857: With Anecdotes, Narratives, and Graphic Sketches, Moral, Political, Commercial, and AgriculturalThe work being written entirely for the Operative class, its style, con struction, and unavoidable digressions, were adopted to suit those whose education and Opportunities were limited. To have done otherwise, with the limited space at command, would have been to put algebra into the hands of children. It was only by availing himself of an abstract, chrono logical, and irrelative arrangement, that the Author has been enabled to condense an incredible quantity of matter, and thereby instruct, amuse, and lead the reader, when so inclined, to larger works on the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.