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boat may, meanwhile, be run up to Brucehaven, Limekilns, or Charleston. Now, Brucehaven, Limekilns, and Charleston, are interesting enough to look at, nestling under the green ridge of their limestone cliffs, beautifully defined by the verdant foliage, as if it were a veritable piece of the Emerald Isle that had been bodily transferred to the spot with the environs of Broomhall, the seat of the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, presiding over a scene, of which the noble proprietor has done so much to evoke the energies. By a rather primitive looking railway, access is afforded to Dunfermline, about three miles distant from Charleston. The arrangement and regularity of this village itself is not a little remarkable; the cottages being ranged in rows, considerably apart, and each provided with a tolerable sized garden; whilst a large formidable looking establishment, which crowns the height, turns out to be the general baking house of the district. Every thing indicates a carefully organized system of society, which might form the model of other mining districts, with every probability of advantage to health and cleanliness. Farther up, beyond Crombie Point, the fugitive little village of Torryburn occupies another embayed nook of the waters, and charms

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