Kinross-shire — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Kinross-shire, the smallest Scotch county after Clackmannanshire, lies between Perthshire and Fife, and, measuring $9\frac{3}{4}$ by $12\frac{1}{2}$ miles, has an area of 78 sq. m., or 49,812 acres, of which 3327 are water. Most of the drainage belongs to Loch Leven (q.v.), from which the surface rises to encircling hills 734 to 1573 feet high. A separate county since 1252 and earlier, Kinross-shire unites with Clackmannanshire to return one member to parliament. Pop. (1801) 6725; (1851) 8924; (1881) 6697; (1891) after adjustment of areas with Perth and Fife, 6637, of whom 1920 were in the county town, Kinross, 27 miles NNW. of Edinburgh, and near the west end of Loch Leven. See Æneas Mackay's Fife and Kinross-shire (1890).