or Pitcaithly, is the name of an estate in Strathern in Scotland, famous for a mineral spring. An intelligent traveller gives the following account of it. "The situation of the mineral spring at Pitcaithly, the efficacy with which its waters through the air are said to operate in the cure of the diseases for which they are used, and the accommodations which the neighbourhood affords, are all of a nature to invite equally the sick and the healthy. Two or three houses are kept in the style of hotels for the reception of strangers. There is no long-room at the well; but there are pleasing walks through the adjoining fields. Good roads afford easy access to all the circumjacent country. This delightful tract of Lower Strathern is filled with houses and gardens, and stations from which wide and delightful prospects may be enjoyed; all of which offer agreeable points to which the company at the well may direct their forenoon excursions; conversation, music, dances, whist, and that best friend to elegant, lively, and social converse, the tea-table, are sufficient to prevent the afternoons from becoming languid; and in the evenings nothing can be so delightful as a walk when the setting sun throws a soft flitting light, and the dew has just begun to moisten the grass." Thus is Pitcaithly truly a rural watering place. The company cannot be at any one time more in number than two or three families. The amusements of the place are simply such as a single family might enjoy in an agreeable situation in the country; only the society is more diversified by the continual change and fluctuation of the company." See Mineral Waters, p. 55.