a county of Scotland of which Forfar is the capital. Including Angus, Glenlivet, Glenfeshie, and Glenprosfin, it extends 29 miles from east to west, and 16 where broadest, though in some places the breadth does not exceed five miles. On the north it is divided from the Brae of Mar, by a ridge of the Binchnen mountains; it is bounded on the south by the Frith of Tay and the British ocean; on the east by Mearns, and on the west by Perthshire. Part of the Grampian mountains runs through this country, which is agreeably diversified with hill and dale. It produces lead and iron in abundance, together with quarries of freestone and slate, with which the inhabitants drive a considerable traffic. The county is well watered with lakes, rivers, rivulets, and fountains, shaded with large forests, roughened with brown mountains, and waved with green hills interspersed with fields and meadows, and adorned with fine seats and plantations. Their heaths and woods abound with hart, hind, roebuck, and moor-game; their streams are stocked with trout and salmon. Their hills are covered with flocks of sheep, and their fields afford plentiful harvests of wheat and all sorts of grain. The mountains to the west and north are inhabited by Highlanders; but the Lowlanders possess the towns and champaign country, and are remarkable for their politeness and hospitality; though this last virtue often degenerates into downright debauchery, infomuch, that the gentlemen value themselves upon their prowess in drinking. The common people are sober, numerous, and addicted to traffic. Forfarshire exhibits many monuments of antiquity. At the village of Miggle, in the neighbourhood of Coupar, there are several stones erected in the church-yard, embellished with the figures of different animals and other ornaments. In the church-yard of Glamis, we see an old obelisk or entire stone 16 feet high, set up over the grave of king Malcolm II., who was murdered by the connivance of his own domestics. This stone is engraved with a number of figures alluding to the regicide; and at a little distance, within the park of Glamis, there is another stone marked with hieroglyphical symbols, which seem to express the perpetration of the same murder. At the village of Coffers, in the same neighbourhood, a very curious obelisk appears lying in the fields. It is known by the name of St. Orland's stone, and exhibits a great variety of figures in bas-relief. There is another small stone inscribed with figures at Balutheren, in the neighbourhood of Dundee. At the distance of a mile to the southward of Glamis, stands Denoon castle, upon an eminence, environed with steep rocks almost inaccessible, having on the north two or three rows of terraces. It is built in a semicircular form, encompassed with a stupendous wall of stone and earth, 27 feet high, and 30 feet in thickness. It has two entries, one to the south-east and another to the north. The whole circumference of the wall amounts to 335 yards; and within this area, the ruins of ancient buildings are still visible. About four miles to the southward of Brechin, at a place called Aberlemno, we find four or five ancient obelisks, one of which is engraved with figures, supposed to be monuments of a great victory gained at the village of Loncarty, by the Scots over the Danes; a victory entirely owing to the valour of an husbandman and his two sons, of the surname of Hay, who were ennobled for their prowess by king Kenneth III. From these descended the earls of Errol, hereditary high-constables of Scotland.