Fife

Fife is a maritime historical county in the East of Scotland, which juts out into the German Ocean and is washed by the Firths of Tay and Forth on its North and South shores respectively, thus forming a small peninsula. It has for the most part a broken and hilly surface, extensively cultivated however, while the "How of Fife," watered by the Eden, is a fertile valley, richly wooded. Valuable coal deposits are worked in the South and West. Its long coast-line is studded with picturesque towns, many of them of ancient date, a circumstance which led James VI to describe the county as "a beggar's mantle fringed with gold". It is associated with much that is memorable in Scottish history.

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