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The Braemar Highlands; Their Tales, Traditions and History
The Braemar Highlands Their Tales Traditions and History Author:Elizabeth Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Description of Ben-Macdhui -- Linn of Dee -- Glen Ey -- Colonel's Cave -- Castle of Inverey -- Glen Lui -- Falls of Corrymulzie -- Linn of Quoich -- Braemar Castle -- Ceann-Drochaide Castle, etc. MORE minute description of the interesting localities of Braemar fittingly begins with the monarch of its mountains -- Ben- Macdhui. As before stated, it is the highest summit of the Cairngorm range, being some 4297 feet. The scenery from any part of it is very grand, often overpoweringly so, from the awe which the profound solitude of such a mountain wilderness induces. The prospect from its summit is a glorious one, but varies much both in extent and distinctness, according to the state of the atmosphere. As several elaborate descriptions have been given of the wondrous panorama, and lately an exceedingly correct one by Her Majesty the Queen, it is unnecessary to give fresh details of it. I may just glimpse, instead, at the appearance of one or two of Bcn-Macdhufs compeers, -- Cairn-Toul, for instance, as its sugar-loaf shape particularly attracts attention ; or perhaps Brae-Riach, which is still more interesting, as from its steep brow the infant Dee is seen gushing like a long wavy line of silver. To one standing on the western side of Ben-Mac- dhui, Brae-Riach presents the appearance of a long wall of precipice, said to be at least 2000 feet in height; and so near does it appear, that one imagines it would be easy to throw a stone across the gorge to the top of it. This great wall extends several miles, and forms one side of the valley through which the Dee runs before it turns to the...« less