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Title: Clackmannan and Kinross
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Day, John Percival, 1880-
Subjects: Clackmannanshire (Scotland) Kinross-shire (Scotland)
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) : University Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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pate, while the boggy morass calledMaddy Moss has been known to burst its barriers andsend down a jostling torrent of mud by the Burn ofSorrow to the Devon below. These Lammas floodshave often caused the Devon below Dollar to overflowits banks, destroying any crops in the low fields adjacent.Such a flood is noted in the Old Statistical Account :A very remarkable and uncommon flood happened inSeptember 1785, which carried away a prodigious quantityof corn, broke down a stone bridge at the Rack Mill, inDollar, and occasioned other very extraordinary damage.The river rose in four or five hours more than 13 teetabove its usual heiglit at Tillicoultry Bridge. A laterand more disastrous flood occurred in August 1877.That month had been one of particularly heavy rainfall,so heavy, indeed, that it caused the total rainfall for thatyear to be greater than previously recorded in many partsof Scotland, including Dollar, where the total fall was61-28 inches as against the average figure ot 41-66.
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Waterfall in Tillicoultry Glen CLIMATE 39 riirouiihout the night of the 27th August, a steadyfall of rail) had swollen the Ochil burns ami, whenmorning came, a torrential downpour was descendingfrom the gloomy and sombre skv. The dark hillsidewas streaked with the white of foaming, tumblingcataracts, which, pouring downwards into the turgidflood of the Devon, caused widespread inundation anddevastation. The town of Tillicoultry suffered severely—to the extent, it is said, of some _^,8ooo. 8. Agriculture. The 1911 Census returned the number of personsengaged in agriculture in Clackmannanshire as 490, oneout of every 19 occupied males. Considerably less thanhalf the land is now under culti\ation, while one-third ismountain and heath land used for grazing. Oats androtation grasses occupy more than two-thirds of thearable land, the remaining third being utilised for rootcrops, beans, wheat or barley. The soil south of theOchil fault varies from a stiff clay to a sandy loam,the heavier s

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