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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ewise noted, for its linen manufacture, in addition to which there are nurseries, distilleries, paper-mills, and freestone quarries. By the side of the ancient cathedral, sadly disfigured by modern restorers, stands a large round tower. Forfar, a fine old town in the centre of Strathmore, is the county town. Like its neighbour Kirriemuir, it is engaged in the linen trade. Near these towns is the magnificent baronial castle of Glammis. Kincardine, or Mearns, extends from the Southern Esk to the Dee, and is in part occupied by the northern extremity of Strathmore, which reaches the sea at the town of Stonehaven, the harbour of which is formed by the mouth of the Carron. ABERDEENSHIRE. 367 Dunnotar Castle stands on a bold porphyritic rock to the south. Findon (noted for its haddocks), Bertie, and Johnshaven are mere fishing villages. The principal villages in the interior of the county are Fordoun and Arbuthnot, both with mineral Fig. 182. —Montrose. from the Ordnance Map. Scale 1 : 68,263.
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1 Mile. wells; Kincardine, the old county town; Laurencekirk ; and Marykirk, with a Catholic college. Aberdeenshire extends from the mouth of the Dee to that of the Doveran, and is shut in, on the south and west, by bold spurs of the Grampians. It includes the valley of the Dee, which flows through the districts of Braemar and Mar ; that of the Don, which drains Alford and Garioch ; that of the Ythan, 868 THE BRITISH ISLES. which traverses Formatin ; and those of the Tapper Doveran, with the Bogie, which drains Strathbogie. The north-eastern portion of the county is known as Buchan, and supplies Loudon with its finest beef. Granite and marble abound,but neither coal nor metals are found, and the manufacturing industry is of little importance. Aberdeen occupies a geographical position at the outlet of the valleys of the Dee and Don, along which latter leads the natural high-road to Moray Firth, which amply accounts for its early growth into a prosperous city. Its harbour was frequented at a t

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