LARGO-LOWER, a village, in the parish of Largo,
county of Fife, 4 miles (N. E. by E.) from Leven; containing,
with the hamlets of Temple and Drumochy,
567 inhabitants. This village is pleasantly situated,
and well inhabited: there are places of worship for
members of the United Presbyterian Church and Baptists.
Alexander Selkirk, whose adventures on a desolate
island are, under the name of Robinson Crusoe, narrated
by De Foe, was a native of this village, in which
he was born in I676. Embracing a sea-faring life, he
was, in 1/03, left on the island of Juan Fernandez,
where he remained for more than four years in perfect
solitude: he was brought to England by Capt. Woode
Rogers, but, after nine months' residence on shore, he
returned to sea, and was not heard of afterwards.