SALTCOATS

SALTCOATS, a sea-port town of Ayrshire in Scotland, and on the frith of Clyde, at the end of the 17th century consisted of only four houses, but now contains above 2000 inhabitants, is now a great resort of strangers in summer as a watering place, has a considerable trade in coal and salt, with a rope-yard, the manufacture of sail-cloth and ship-building. It is 30 miles from Glasgow, and 18 from Ayr, and in W. Long. $4^\{\backslash circ\}\; 37\text{'}$ N. Lat. $55^\{\backslash circ\}\; 41\text{'}$.