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NAIRNSHIRE , a See also:north-eastern See also:county of See also:Scotland, bounded W. and S. by See also:Inverness-See also:shire, E. by See also:Elginshire and N. by the See also:Moray See also:Firth. It has an See also:area of 103,429 acres or 161.6 sq., m., and a See also:coast See also:line of 9 M. and is the See also:fourth smallest county in Scotland. The seaboard, which is skirted by sandbanks dangerous to See also:navigation, is lined by See also:low See also:dunes extending into Elginshire. Parallel with the coast there is a See also:deposit of See also:sand and See also:gravel about go ft. high stretching inland for 4 or 5 M. This and the undulating See also:plain behind are a continuation westward of the fertile Laigh of Moray. From this region southward the See also:land rises rapidly to the confines of Inverness-shire, where the See also:chief heights occur. Several of these border hills exceed 2000 ft. in See also:altitude, the highest being Carn See also:Glas (2162 ft.). The only See also:rivers of importance are the Findhorn and the See also:Nairn, both rising in Inverness-shire. The Findhorn after it leaves that county takes a mainly north-easterly direction down Strathdearn for 17 M. and enters the See also:sea to the north of See also:Forres in Elginshire after a See also:total course of 70 M. The Nairn, shortly after issuing from See also:Strathnairn, flows towards the N.E. for 12 M. out of its See also:complete course of 38 M. and falls into the Moray Firth at the county See also:town. There are eight lochs, all small, but the See also:loch of Clans is of particular See also:interest because of its examples of crannogs, or See also:lake-dwellings. Nairnshire contains many beautiful See also:woods and much picturesque and romantic scenery.
See also:Geology.—The county is divided geologically into two clearly-marked portions. The See also:southern and larger portion is composed ef the eastern, See also:Dalradian or younger Highland See also:schists with associated See also:granite masses; this forms all the higher ground. The low-lying See also:northern See also:part of the See also:country bordering Moray Firth is occupied by Old Red See also:Sandstone. The schistose rocks are mainly thin bedded micaceous gneisses, schists and quartzites; between Dallaschyle and Creag an Dairnb a more massive higher See also:horizon appears in the centre of a synclinal See also:fold. Porphyritic See also:gneiss is found on the flanks of See also:Caen nan tri-tighearnan. The schists are frequently intersected by dikes of granite, See also:amphibolite, &c. Three masses of granite are found penetrating the schists; the largest lies on the eastern boundary and extends from about Lethca See also:Bar See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill southward by Ardclach and Glenferness to the See also:Bridge of Dulsie. The second See also:mass on the opposite See also:side of the county belongs mainly to Inverness but the granite reaches into Nairn on the slopes of Bein nan Creagan and See also:Ben Buidhe Mhor. A smaller mass near Rait See also:Castle, with largeby them are found at Moyness, Auldearn, Urchany, Ballinrait, Dalcross and Croy, the valley of the Nairn being especially See also:rich in such See also:relics. To the north of Dulsie Bridge is a monolith called the Princess See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone. A greater number of the mysterious prehistoric stones with See also:cup-markings occur in Nairn than any-where else in Scotland. Mote hills are also See also:common. Whether there was any effective See also:Roman occupation of the land so far north is an open question, but there is little See also:evidence of it in Nairn, beyond the occasional finding of Roman coins. See also:Columba and his successors made valiant efforts to Christianize the Picts, but it was See also:long before their labours began to tell, although the See also:saint's name was preserved See also:late in the ,9th See also:century in the See also:annual See also:fair at Auldearn called " St Colm's See also:Market," while to his biographer See also:Adamnan—corrupted into Evan or Wean—was dedicated the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Cawdor, where an old See also:Celtic See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell also bears this name. By the See also:dawn of the loth century the Picts had been subdued with the help of the Norsemen, and Nairn, which was one of the districts colonized by the Scandinavians, as part of the See also:ancient See also:province of Moray, soon afterwards became an integral portion of the See also:kingdom of Scotland. See also:Macbeth was one of the See also:kings that Moray gave to Scotland, and his name and memory survive to the See also:present See also:day. Hardmuir, between See also:Brodie and Nairn, is the reputed See also:heath where Macbeth met the witches. Territorially Moray was greatly contracted in the reign of See also:David I., and thenceforward the See also:history of Nairn merges in the See also:main in that of the bishopric and earldom of Moray (see See also:ELGIN). The thane of Cawdor was See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's castle at Nairn, and when the heritable sheriffdom was established towards the See also:close of the 14th century this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was also filled by the thane of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time.
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