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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ALLT A' BHREABADAIR HILL Aultnabreber Hill
Aultnabreber Hill
Aultnabreber Hill
Estate Map of property AD 1766
Mr W. Ross Littletolly
Mr A. Cameron Bluefold
069 a conspicuous high Hill upon its summit is a Trigonometrical Station which is also a point of the boundary between the parishes of Stathdon and Glenmucktulloch The boundary from which leads Eastward & Crosses the slacks of Glencarvie at a distance of 55. chains - and from the same Station leads over equal distance westward to a March Cairn near the top of Cairnagour hill; situated also about 25. ch [chains] South of another Conspicuous hill called Minagowen The Hill, it is said, has derived the name from a Burn which issues from a peat moss and other springs near the Summit, and which runs in a S.E. [South East] direction
ALLT A' BHREABADAIR Aultnabreber
Aultnabreber
Aultnabreber
Estate Map of Property AD 1766
Mr W. Ross Littletolly
Mr A. Cameron Bluefold
069 a Stream which issues from a peatmoss abt [about] 15. chains S.E. [South East] of Aultnabreber hill Trigl.[Trigonometrical] Station The name, it is said, is a vulgar gaelic for the word Weaver or Weaver's and Signifies merely The Weavers' Burn. 'Ault' being 'burn' and when it is in the word Supplied to a Burn or stream, it wants most certainly then be Superfluous to add the word burn to such names. This Burn runs for a mile or upwards in a S.E. [South East] direction where it enters The Meikle Burn of Morden which also receives other streams by the way, Aultbho, Aultaorannimecherann etc etc. or in English The Cowburn and The Riggs' Burn.
ALLT MOR Burn of Meikle Glenfenzie
Burn of Meikle Glenfenzie
Burn of Meikle Glenfenzie
Estate Map of property A.D. 1766
Mr W. Ross Littletolly
Mr A Cameron Bluefold
069 [Situation] South Margin of Sheet]
This Stream also issues from a peatmoss near the Summit of Aultnabreber hill and at a point abt. [about] 20. chains S.W. [South West] of the Trigonometrical Station and leads in a Southward direction The above two Streams, from the foot of the plan, enter the work of the Inverness Division.

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Parishes of Strathdon

[Note beside 'Allt a' Bhreabadair Hill']
should be plural. [initialled] JMcD

[Note beside 'Allt a' Bhreabadair']
(Inverness Division Orthography.)

[Note beside 'Allt Mòr']
accent not correctly inserted
(Inverness Division Orthography.)

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