III-POPULATION.

The actual population cannot be short of 1700, including from 200 to 300 strangers at work on the Slamannan Railway. Indeed, the immense fields of coal now proved to lie within the parish, and the increasing facilities of export, make it unlikely that it should ever fall below that number. If we except twenty-five families of colliers lately settled, and an unusually large proportion of masons the population is entirely agricultural, interspersed with the necessary tradesmen.

The number of families settled is 300.

There is one insane person under restraint; three too weak in mind to be employed in labour.

The people are industrious, sober, and kind, especially to other in distress.