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[Extracts from New Statistical Account of Elginshire] -- Examiners replies to each of the underlined portions

[of] General Wade. Since the desolating flood of 1829, it is scarcely passable..............................-- part of this road shown.
[the] other is at the hamlet from which it derives its name, was built in 1791,
[and] is in excellent repair.
Ecclesiastical State. Part of this parish was detached in 1824 to form
[a] quoad Sacra parish of Rothiemurchus. The church an excellent edifice,..................................-- Noticed in descriptive Remarks.
[built] in 1826 is seated for the accommodation of between 800 & 900.

Quoad Sacra Parish of Rothiemurchus.....................................................................................-- This Parish has not yet been examined.
[This] parish is about 7 miles in length, and 10 miles in breadth, bounded on
[the -----] by the river Spey, separating it from Duthil and Alvie; on the east;
[and] the united parishes of Abernethy and Kincardine; on the south and south
[----], by the united parishes of Craithie and Braemar in Aberdeenshire;
[and] on the west, by that portion of the parish of Alvie which lies upon
[the] south side of the river Spey.
This district presents a great variety of surface, consisting of beau-
[tiful] tracts of level ground well cultivated, Knolly eminences, covered
with birch, Scotch fir, larch, and different Kinds of hardwood;
while in the back ground, and at the base of the lofty Cairngorum Range,
extends the large forest of pine, which renders this property so valuable.......................................-- no name
Near the west end of the parish is the Old-bàn, (white hill), a hill standing....................................-- Ord Bain written
solitary in advance of the great Grampian chain, beautiful wooded to near
the summit. There are excellent lime quarries. Along the base of this hill......................................-- Shown
to the south stretches Loch-an-Eilean, (lake of the Island), more than mile in length
and from ½ mile to ¼ mile in breadth. This lake contains an island
there are the ruins of a castle, of which tradition speaks as one of the strongholds.........................-- Shown on trace
of the Wold of Badenoch, celebrated for his burning of the Elgin Cathedral.
It is chiefly remarkable in the present day for a very distinct echo, whose reverbe-
rations among the surrounding mountains have a very fine effect. Southwards,
about ½ amile from Loch-an-Eilean, is Loch Gamhuinn, encircled by the........................................-- Loch an Eilein & Loch Gamhna written
tall dark pine, in harmony with the wild Alpine scenery around. Along the
margin of this lake, runs Rathad-na-meirlich (thieve's road) the common pass................................-- Written
of the Lochaber reivers in their excursions to Morayland; and it is probable
[that] this was the scene of some striking event in their history as the name
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