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GLENTILT

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 121 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GLENTILT , a glen in the extreme See also:

north of See also:Perthshire, See also:Scotland. Beginning at the confines of See also:Aberdeenshire, it follows a north-See also:westerly direction excepting for the last 4 m., when it runs due S. to See also:Blair See also:Atholl. It is watered throughout by the Tilt, which enters the Garry after a course of 14 m., and receives on its right the Tarff, which forms some beautiful falls just above the confluence, and on the See also:left the See also:Fender, which has some See also:fine falls also. The See also:attempt of the 6th See also:duke of Atholl (1814-1864) to See also:close the glen to the public was successfully contested by the Scottish Rights of Way Society. The See also:group of mountains—Carn nan Gabhar (3505 ft.), See also:Ben y Gloe (3671) and Carn Liath (3193)—06 its left See also:side dominate the See also:lower See also:half of the glen. See also:Marble of See also:good quality is occasionally quarried in the glen, and the See also:rock formation has attracted the See also:attention of geologists from the See also:time of See also:James See also:Hutton.

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