. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. RNTISLAND pany. Up to 18S1 it was managed as part of the burghproperty by the to^vn council, but by the latest Act it isvested in 8 commissioners, 4 of them appointed by thatcompany, and 4 by the town council. The wet dock,opened on 1 Dec. 1876, covers 5^ acres, and has about630 yards of quayage, a depth of from IDJ to 225 feet,an entrance 50 feet ^dde, railway connections, and threehydraulic loading machines ; the sea-wall, starting fromthe island at the S end of Cromwell Dyke, is th
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. RNTISLAND pany. Up to 18S1 it was managed as part of the burghproperty by the to^vn council, but by the latest Act it isvested in 8 commissioners, 4 of them appointed by thatcompany, and 4 by the town council. The wet dock,opened on 1 Dec. 1876, covers 5^ acres, and has about630 yards of quayage, a depth of from IDJ to 225 feet,an entrance 50 feet ^dde, railway connections, and threehydraulic loading machines ; the sea-wall, starting fromthe island at the S end of Cromwell Dyke, is thence tobe carried in a westerly and a northerly direction, includ-ing several acres of the foreshore. How great alreadyhas been the effect of the improvements, may be seen inthe growth of the harbour revenue from £197 in 1860and £1622 in 1875, to £16,519 in 1879, £14,785 in 1880,and £11,000 in the first 7 months of 1881. The qi;antity,too, of coal exported has risen from 190,061 tons in 1876to 230,132 in 1877, 368,480 in 1878, 450,636 in 1879,460,664 in 1880, and 296,694 in the first 7 months Seal of Burntisland. The railway station adjoins the steamboat pier, andcombines elegance of architecture with commodiousnessof arrangement; whilst the neighbouring Forth Hotel isa handsome edifice, with all the convenience of a city esta-blishment. The railway between the sea and the first through deep rock-cuts, and next along a beachdevoted to bathing. A little way down the line is a largerailway-carriage and engine depot. Encroachments bythe sea have been made and are menaced to the E of therailway works; and Sibbalds History of Fife (1710) saysthat towns-folk not long dead did remember the grassyLinks reach to the Black Craigs, near a mUe into the seanow. In 1656 Burntisland had 7 vessels of from 12 to 150tons ; like other ports of Fife, it is said to have sufferedgreatly from the Union. The boats of the Forth andEast Coast fisheries long made its harbour th
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