a small burgh in Fife, which joins with Kirkcaldy, Dysart, and Burntisland in sending a member to parliament. For its constituency, see KIRKCALDY. It has charters from King Alexander III., dated 26th June 1284; from King David II., dated 2nd July 1364; from King James V., dated 30th August 1541; and from King James VI., dated 12th December 1611. By these charters its privileges as a burgh, and its right to the harbours of Pettycur and Kinghorn, with its lake, lands, and mills, are confirmed. The revenue of these amounted in 1832 to £670. They were then valued at L.13,114, and the debts upon them amounted to L.5836. 2s. 5d. The various projects for improving the harbours are mentioned in the article FORTH, and a negotiation is at present (1836) going on for their execution, by a joint-stock company. The extent of the lake of Kinghorn is about twenty imperial acres, and the length of the stream flowing from it to the sea is nearly 1000 yards. The height of the mill-sluice upon it above the level of the high-water mark is about 178 feet ten inches. Six mills were, within the last thirty years, driven by the waters flowing from it, and there might have been a seventh. There are at present upon it a meal and barley mill, and three flax spinning-mills, turning, with the aid of powerful steam-engines and their water-wheels, 3660 spindles. The other waterfalls are at present unemployed. Flax spinning is the principal trade of the town. The shipping trade, besides that of the ferry, is of little importance, consisting only of one large brig and two coasting vessels. The government of the town is vested in a provost, two bailies, a treasurer, thirteen councillors, and five police commissioners, chosen by the inhabitants, under the act 5 and 6 William IV., cap. 63. It has also five incorporated trades. The principal buildings are the townhouse, erected on the site of an old Saxon building called St Leonard's Chapel, and the schools. Both buildings are from plans by Mr Hamilton of Edinburgh. The prison, with its airing ground, annexed to the town-house, is, with the exception of the jails at Kirkcaldy and Cupar, the best in the county. The schools belong to the burgh, but were erected by private subscription; and the gardens were gratuitously laid out chiefly by the working classes. The principal teacher is chosen by the burgage and landward heritors; the burgage heritors pay half of his salary,