Strathearn, the basin of the river Earn and its tributaries, in Perthshire. It extends about 32 miles from W to E, and has a mean breadth, including its flanking heights, of 6 to 8 miles. Commencing on the E border of Balquhidder parish, at the head of Loch Earn, it is grandly Highland around that lake and for the first 8 miles of the river ; expands into brilliant strath in the western vicinityof Crieff ; and thence, in opulence of lowland beauty, proceeds into mergence with Strathtay at the mouth of the Earn. It forms, as a whole, one of the most exquisite tracts of country in Scotland, replete with every element of beauty, and exhibiting almost perfect specimens of very various styles of -scenery. Forming with Monteith the ancient province of Fortrenn, Strathearn was the seat of an ancient Celtic earldom, whose first Earl, Malise, was a witness to the foundation charter of Scone (1115). It formed a stewartry, in the hands of the Earls of Perth, till the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1748 ; and it gave the title of Duke, in the peerage of Scotland, to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria.
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