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- 213 - Various parishes , Title page
- 214 - Various parishes , Index
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| GLEN ROY | [continued from page 159] In one most essential circumstance they bear no resemblance to roads, inasmuch as they are not level or flat; the angle of their deviation from the horizontal plane varying from 12 to 30 degrees in which last case they are scarsely distinguishable from the slope of the hill on which they lie. Hence it is that they are sometimes invisible or nearly so except from below where the shadowy line produced by the foreshortening renders them apparent. Where widest they are about 70 feet in breadth and from that they vary to one as low as 10 or 12 - 50 or 60 being perhaps the most common dimension. Where there are protruding rocKs the "roads" do not exist, and they are deficient in the ravines and water courses. The same appearances are found in the greater valleys with which Glen Roy communicates; but we shall only allude to that which may be observed on both sides of the Glen spread corresponding to the level of the lowest in Glen Roy, much interrupted but capable of being traced in different places and on both sides of the valley from the furthest extremity of Loch Laggan to that spacious and open vale that lies between Teindrish and the foot of Ben Nevis. The mode in which they have been produced by water "Says Macculloch" seems perfectly clear and Simple. The Parallel Roads are the shores of ancient laKes, or of one ancient laKe occupying Successively different levels and long since drained. In an existing laKe among hills it is easy to see the very terraces in question produced by the wash of the alluvial matter of the hills. By this checK, and by the loss of gravity which stones undergo from immersion in water, they are disturbed in a belt along the margin of the laKe; a belt broadest and most level where there are most loose materials, and where the declivity of the hill is least: narrowest and most imperfect where these circumstances are different and where rocKs protrude, ceasing to be formed. In every one of these points the shores of a living laKe precisely agree with the lines of these valleys; and ere such a laKe suddenly drained now, it would be a Glen Roy. [continued on page 160] |
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Parish of Kilmoniviag -- Inverness shire
Ordnance Survey - Inverness county, OS Name Books - Inverness county (Mainland) - Volume 44 - Parishes of Kilmonivaig, Laggan, Kingussie and Insh, OS1/17/44
This volume contains information on place names found in the parishes of Kilmonivaig, Laggan, Kingussie and Insh.
Ordnance Survey - Inverness county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Inverness, which is in the north of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.