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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MOUNT BATTOCK Mount Battock
Mount Battock
Mount Battock
Mount Battock
Mount Battock
Mount Battoch
New Stat. [Statistical] Account
County Map
Land of the Lindsays
Mr. Stocks Factor
Rev. [Reverend] W. Low
Fullarton's Gazetteer
007 One of the highest mountains in Forfarshire and second in importance to "Mount Keen", It rises high above all the hills around it, and is a prominent object in some directions for 30 miles. It has two tops the "Wester Cairn" forming one, and the point where the Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Station is the other,
Derivation Monadh Badach The mountain abounding in groves, thickets &c. with which nearly all of those hills were at one time more or less abundant. [Initialled] T.B.
"Mount Battock is 3465 feet high" New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
WESTER CAIRN Wester Cairn
Wester Cairn
Wester Cairn
James Caithness, Shank
Duncan Michie, Ground Officer
Charles Christison, Glentennet
007 A prominent feature forming the Western top of "Mount Battock".
BLACK CRAIG Black Craig James Caithness, Shank
Duncan Michie, Ground Officer
Charles Christison, Glentennet
007 A few scattered rocks on the Southern side of Mount Battock

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