GILSTON-NEW, a village, in the parish of Largo,
district of St-Andrew's, county of Fife, 4 miles (N. by
E.) from Largo; containing 229 inhabitants. It hes in
the northern part of the parish, and near its eastern
boundary. In the vicinity of the village is a singular
mass of rum-coal, said to be eighty feet in thickness, and
wrought in open quarry. In this quarter of the parish,
also, are considerable plantations, consisting of oak, ash,
beech, elm, and other trees.