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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
WHITE HILL White Hill
White Hill
White Hill
Estate Map of property A. D. 1823
Mr. Alexander Walker Gardner Castle Newe
Mr. J. E. Douglas Occupier, Buchaam
060 a hill the greater portion of which is in Cultivation and laid out in parks, situated about 20, Chains northward of Buchaam Farm House. The property of Sir Charles Forbes.
MEALL BEAG Millbeg Hill
Millbeg Hill
Millbeg Hill
Estate Map of property A. D. 1823
Mr. Alexander Walker Gardner Castle Newe
Mr. J. E. Douglas Buchaam
060 a conspicuous range of hill, rising to a conic top, situated abt. [about] 30 Chains E. S. E. [East South East] of Ben Newe and extending northward to the Glenbucket parish boundary. It seems rather questionable whether this name is derived from the word 'Muil' s. [signification] a promontary or 'Meall' a lump, a knob, a heap, a hill, &c very probably the latter (?) which is more natural to the shape of ground or outline; Then the name should be Mealbeg - in preference to that given on the Estate Map _ It is also said, what represents a nose or promontary should frm [from] the original be 'Mul' as is frequently shown on the Map of Scotland Mull of Cantire Mull of Calloway &c in either case Mill is evidently incorrect as a rule _ 'Hill' is written after by Sr. [Sapper] Dickson's Order.
Hill is fully expressed in Meall Beag.
DOWNINGS OF BUCHAAM Downings of Buchaam
Downings of Buchaam
Downings of Buchaam
Estate Map of property A. D. 1823
Mr. Alexander Walker Gardner Castle Newe
Mr. J. E. Douglas Buchaam
060 Inserted on the Estate Map 'Downings of Buchaam' it indicates the name which consists of three Conspicuous Conic topped hillocks, situated a little westward of a particular curve of the River Don abt. [about] 25. Chains S.S.W. [South South West] or Southward of the Mains of Glenbucket Abt. [About] 65. Chains E. [East] of Ben Newe, It is said the name is derived from the Gaelic word Dun (The plural Dunen &c) for the word Knoll or hillock. In Dr. [Doctor] Armstrong's P. [Page] 216. A very merited article is given on the word 'Dun' with reference to upwards of a dozn. [dozen] of the earliest languages known.

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Parish of Strathdon

White Hill [Correction initialed] C.M.B.

Meall Beag
Meall nom. plur. [nominative plural]. Mill A hill, a lump &c.
Mill Beage _ The Little lumps or hills
Maol _ Mull or chief headland or Cape of land
Millbeg is not likely maol beag
Meall Beag is quite right. Mill is the common E. [Etymological] form of Meall. JMcD.

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