Fithie, a rivulet of SW Forfarshire. It rises on Balcallo Hill at an altitude of 800 feet above sea-level, and running 8 miles south-eastward, through or along the borders of Tealing, Murroes, Dundee, and Monifieth parishes, falls into Dichty Water, 1½ mile above that stream's entrance to the Firth of Tay. It makes, in its lowermost reach, valuable alluvial deposits on its banks.Ord. Sur., shs. 48, 49, 1868-65.
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