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BEN MACDHUI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEN MACDHUI , more correctly BEN MUICHDHUI (Gaelic for " the See also:mountain of the See also:black See also:pig," in allusion to its shape), the second highest mountain (4296 ft.) in See also:Great See also:Britain, one of the See also:Cairngorm See also:group, on the confines of See also:south-western See also:Aberdeenshire and south-western See also:Banffshire, not far from the eastern boundary of See also:Inverness-See also:shire. It is about 11 m. from See also:Castleton of See also:Braemar and about to from Aviemore. The ascent is usually made from Castleton of Braemar, by way of the Linn of See also:Dee, Glen Lui and Glen Derry. From the See also:head of Glen Derry, with its blasted trees, the picture of desolation, it becomes more toilsome, but is partly repaid by the view of the remarkable columnar cliffs of See also:Corrie Etchachan. The See also:summit is See also:flat and quite See also:bare of vegetation, but the See also:panorama in every direction is extremely See also:grand. At the See also:foot of a vast See also:gully, 2500 ft. above the See also:sea, lies See also:Loch See also:Avon (or A'an), a narrow See also:lake about 11 m. See also:long, with See also:water of the deepest See also:blue and a margin of See also:bright yellow See also:sand. At the western end of the lake is the Shelter See also:Stone, an enormous See also:block of See also:granite resting upon two other blocks, which can accommodate a dozen persons. Beautiful See also:rock crystals occur in See also:veins in the corries. The summit of Cairngorm, 34 M. See also:north of that of Ben Macdhui, may be reached from the latter with scarcely any descent, by following the rugged See also:ridge flanking the western See also:side of Loch Avon. The other great peaks of the group are Braeriach (4248 ft.) and Cairntoul (4241 ft.), and 6 m. to the See also:east are the twin masses of Ben a Bourd, the See also:northern See also:top of which is 3924 ft. and the See also:southern 386o ft. high. Ben A'an, an adjoining See also:hill, is 384.3 ft. high.

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