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KINGUSSIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 822 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KINGUSSIE , a See also:

town of See also:Inverness-See also:shire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901), 987. It lies at a height of 750 ft. above See also:sea-level, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Spey, here crossed by a See also:bridge, 461 m. S. by S.E. of Inverness by the Highland railway. It was founded towards the end of the 18th See also:century by the See also:duke of See also:Gordon, in the See also:hope of its becoming a centre of woollen manufactures. This expectation, however, was not realized, but in See also:time the See also:place See also:grew popular as a See also:health resort, the scenery in every direction being remarkably picturesque. On the right bank of the See also:river is See also:Ruthven, where See also:James See also:Macpherson was See also:born in 1736, and on the left bank, some 21 M. from Kingussie, is the See also:house of See also:Belleville (previously known as Raitts) which he acquired from See also:Mackintosh of Borlum and where he died in 1796. The See also:mansion, renamed Balavil by Macpherson's See also:great-See also:grandson, was burned down in 1903, when the See also:fine library (including some See also:MSS. of See also:Sir See also:David See also:Brewster, who had married the poet's second daughter) was destroyed. Of Ruthven See also:Castle, one of the residences of the Comyns of See also:Badenoch, only the ruins of the walls remain. Here the See also:Jacobites made an ineffectual rally under See also:Lord See also:George See also:Murray after the See also:battle of See also:Culloden.

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