KINGHORN  , a royal and

police burgh of Fifeshire, Scotland . Pop . (Igor), 155o . It is situated on the Firth of Forth, 24 M . E. by N. of Burntisland, on the North British railway . The public buildings include a library and town-hall . It enjoys some repute as a summer resort . The leading industries are ship-building, bleaching and the making of flax and glue . At the time of his visit Daniel Defoe found thread-making in vogue, which employed the women while the men were at sea . Alexander III. created Kinghorn a burgh, but his connexion with the town proved fatal to him . As he was riding from Inverkeithing on the 12th of March 1286 he was thrown by his horse and fell over the cliffs, since called King's Wud End, a little to the west of the burgh, and killed . A monument was erected in 1887 to mark the supposed scene of the accident .

The

Witch Hill used to be the place of execution of those poor wretches . King-horn belongs to the Kirkcaldy district group of parliamentary burghs . At PETTYCUR, I M. to the south, is a good harbour for its size, and at Kinghorn Ness a battery has been established in connexion with the fortifications on Inchkeith . The hill Cf . Wallace . Geog . Distr . Animals, ii . 315.above the battery was purchased by government in 1903 and is used as a point of observation . About 1 m. to the north of Kinghorn is the estate of Grange, which belonged to Sir William Kirkcaldy . INcHREITH, an island in the fairway of the Firth of Forth, 22 m . S. by E. of Kinghorn and 31 M .

N. by E. of

Leith, belongs to the parish of 'Kinghorn . It has a north-westerly and south-easterly trend, and is nearly 1 m. long and 4 m. wide . It is a barren rock, on the summit of which stands a lighthouse visible at night for 21 M . In 1881 forts connected by a military road were erected on the northern, western and southern headlands .