Original sentence: , and 5 P., and delivers letters on his route through Kelty, Cantsdam, &c.<small>Beath is an inland Parish in the western division of the County.A considerable amount of coal is raised in the Parish, four collieries being in active operation; and the Forth Iron Co.A shallow and tame lake, called Loch Fitty, lies on the western boundary, and sends eastward through the centre of the Parish, a principal tributary of the Orr.A walking postman leaves the Sub-Office at Blairadam about eleven A.Another leaves Lochgelly for Cowdenbeath on the arrival of the Mails from the east, about 8.30 A.Exerpt from the 1861 Parochial Directory for Fife and Kinross.It is about four miles in length, by about three in breadth.It is bounded on the north by the parish of Cleish, by Ballingry and Auchterderran on the east, by Auchtertool on the south-west, by Aberdour and Dalgetty on the south, and by Dunfermline on the west.Railway traverses it eastward, and there is a station at Cowdenbeath.The Kelty, a head water of that stream, flows along part of the northern border.The Postal Arrangements of the Parish are in connection with the Post Offices at Kinross and Lochgelly, with Sub-Offices at Cowdenbeath and Blairadam.The great north road and the Kinross-shire Railway traverse the Parish northward ; and the Dunfermline branch of the E.The greater portion of the population are engaged as miners, some in agricultural pursuits, and the remainder as village tradesmen and shopkeepers.The highest ground is the beautiful hill of Beath, which commands a fine and extensive prospect.The surface is hilly and rugged, though not mountainous.There are four villages in the Parish- Cowdenbeath, Oakfield, Cantsdam, and Kelly.Though there is some good land in the Parish there is a considerable extent of inferior soil, and more than half is in pasture.work a bed of black-band iron-stone at Cowdenbeath, and have furnaces for smelting it at Oakley