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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| MORAY FIRTH | Moray Frith Moray Frith Moray Frith Moray Frith Moray Frith Moray Firth |
New Statistical Account Fullarton's Gazetteer Johnston's County Map Black's Pocket Map Johnston's Royal Atlas Agreeably to O.M.O [Ordnance Mapping Office] Remark |
002 | A Gulf in the extreme north east of Scotland, a Sea rather than a bay or an estuary; the largest projection, and at the same time one of the most regular, which the ocean makes into the Scottish coasts. Loosily defined, but with reference chiefly to its interior waters, it is the AEstuarium Vararis of ancient geographers. Its limits, as assigned by the modern hydrograhers of the country, are somewhat various, and not very distinctly understood; but on the whole, they distribute into two easily ascertained parts, an exterior and an interior. The exterior frith comprehends all the open Sea Southwest of a line between Duncansby-head in Caithness-shire and Kinnaird's-head in Aberdeenshire, onward to the entrance of the inner frith between Tarbetness in Ross-shire and Burgh-head in Morayshire. It blends with the German Ocean on the North-east, and along the Artificial line of connexion with it, measures nearly 80 miles; it has the Counties of Caithness, Ross, and Cromarty on the west, and measures on that side about 70 miles, and it has Morayshire and Aberdeenshire on the South and measures along that Coast about 57 miles. * * * The interior Moray frith, where it opens from the exterior between Tarbetness and Burghhead is about 16 miles wide. It then projects south-westward to Arderseir or Fort George, 24 miles along the Coast of Ross and Cromarty, and 22 miles along that of Moray, Nairn and Inverness. Fifteen miles South west of Tarbetness, between the north and the South Sectors of Cromarty, which rise like the Sides of a huge gateway to admit its ingress, it projects the Cromarty frith between Ross and Cromarty. From its entrance to Arderseir, it gradually contracts, till, over a distance of two miles, it is only from 1 to 1½ miles broad."* * * Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland |
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