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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 893 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUCHTERMUCHTY (Gaelic, " the high ground of the wild sow ")  , a royal and police burgh of Fifeshire, Scotland, built on an
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elevation about 9 m . W. by S. of
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Cupar, with a station on a branch of the North
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British railway from
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Ladybank to Mawcarse Junction . Pop . 1387 . The rapid Loverspool Burn divides the
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town . The
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principal
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industries include the
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weaving of
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linen and damasks,
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bleaching, distilling and malting . John Glas, founder of the
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sect known as Glassites or Sandemanians, was a native of the town . A mile and a
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half to the south-west is the
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village of Strathmiglo (pop . 966), on the
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river Eden, with a linen factory and bleaching
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works .

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