OS1/17/4/71C

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- 6 in [inches] high, 5 feet broad at the bottom, and 15 inches thick, di[m]inishing gradually in breadth till it terminates in the top 6 inches. Wether this obelisk had any connexion with with the [id]olatry practised at the cairn, or whether it was placed to [m]ark the grave of some distinguishes personage, is not []. Such, however, is the veneration in which these relics [] antiquity are held, that although the cairn and the obelisk [s]tand in the middle of a field, and occasion a considerable interruption to the operation of the plough, no attempt has been made to remove the one or the other.
Within a clump of larch trees, planted about 1/2 a mile S.W. from [the] house of Belleville, and near to the public road, a beautiful []able obelisk stands, on which is sculptured a bust exhibiting a very striking likeness of the translator of Ossian.
On the summit of TorAlvie, a monument has been erected by his Grace the present Duke of Gordon, with a beautiful brass plate on the side fronting Kinrara. On this plate is an inscription commemorative of the Officers of the 42nd and 92nd Regiments who fell at Waterloo.
Concerning the Cave at Raitts near Belleville, of which the excavation amounted to 145 solid yards, was artificially built round with dry stones, and covered on the top with large gray flags by a desperate band of depredators, who instigated by implacable Revenge against the Macphersons, they secretly dug the cave which is called by after their name, "Uaigh Clannmhicgillenaoidh as a place of concealment, from which they occasionally sallied forth in the night time to steal and to slaughter the cattle of of the Mac[]ons, wherever they could be found.
[] the meadow of Belleville, between the public road and the Spey, [] be seen Lochandu, celebrated in Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's [] of that name.
There are only two modern buildings in the parish entitled to particular notice. The first of these is Belleville, built by [the] translator of Ossian and the other Kinrara, built by the late

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public road, a beautiful []able obelisk stands, on which is sculptured a bust -- shown on trace
On the summit of TorAlvie, a monument has been erected -- See trace & descriptive Remarks
Kinrara -- written
the Cave at Raitts near Belleville -- written Pictish house, it is believed to be such by Antiquaries but to have been used afterwards as a rendezvous by thieves
Uaigh Clannmhicgillenaoidh -- written Pictish house, it is believed to be such by Antiquaries but to have been used afterwards as a rendezvous by thieves
be seen Lochandu -- Lochan Dubh written

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