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Title: A fauna of the Moray basin
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916 Buckley, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1846-1902
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ng stretch ofbirch wood extending the whole way along the hill-side. Afterleaving the loch the river runs through a most uninterestingcountry, mostly arable, though some of the best early springpools are situated here, past the Brora coal pit, and enters the seaat the little fishing village of Brora. Nearly the whole of theriver below the loch runs over a stony or gravelly bottom, andaffords good spawning ground for the salmon. There are no hills of any great height or importance in thisarea, with the exception of Ben Armine, with its two not verydistinct hills—Creasj Mhor and Creag Beof. It is a green hill, andthe whole of it is under deer. Eagles and Peregrines breed thereregularly and are fortunately preserved. Above Gordonbush thepeculiar conical hill of Beinn Smeoral rises (1667 feet), and alittle to the east is Kollieben, cold and damp on the north-east,drier and with rocky terraces on its south-western side. This latter ^ Since much damaged by the gale on November 18th, 1894.
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•( 1 A i i S i1 J PHYSICAL FEATURES. 31 hill is the source of Clynemiltoii burn, worthy of mention hereas a stream of most beautiful spring water, not a common thing onthe east coast of Sutherland. Between the Brora and Helmsdale there is the small river ofLothbeg, which rises in the Meallan-liath, and runs throughSletal and Glen Loth into the sea by an artificial cutting on thesouth side of Crackaig Point. This little river runs through thewildest and finest scenery on the coast. Sletal was an ancientdeer forest, and the cairn under Craig-vockie was tlie last strong-hold of the wolf in Scotland. It is a wild confused mass of rocks,many of them now overgrown with moss and blaeberries, and yearsago the rock above was tenanted by a pair of eagles; even yet,these birds are occasionally seen in the autumn, and though nolonger a forest, a few deer are still to be seen in their ancientsanctuary. Lower down where Sletal joins Glen Loth, the strathopens out wider and is more bright and sunn

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