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Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 84a
Extracts from New Statistical Account
United Parishes of Urquhart and Glenmoriston

Anciently, the parish of Glenmoriston was united to that
of Abertarff, and it is believed that it was when the latter
was connected with Boleskine that the former was joined
to Urquhart. Since the suppression of Popery, the two parishes
have had but one minister, the glebe and parish church being
situated at Kilmore, on the margin of the Bay of Urquhart.
Glen Urquhart and Glenmoriston, which are the only trans-
verse valleys branching off from the north side of Loch Ness.
These glens, proceeding in a south west and nearly par-
allel direction, are respectively about 9 and 12 miles long,
and are separated by high heathy hills, which terminate
immediately above Loch Ness, in the great round backed
mountain of Maulfuarmhonvie, or Mealfuarvonie,
(literally, the height or hump of the cold moor), whose domed
shaped summit attains an elevation of 3200 feet; while, in
the opposite direction, these valleys usher us to the plain of
Corrymony and the ridges overhanging Strathglass on
the one hand, and on the other the great moorland or table
ground which stretches around Loch Cluany and the
bases of the peaked mountains of Kintail.
At the base of the upper acclivity of Mealfaurvonie,
which is perpendicular on the north and south sides,
nearly so on the west, and connected by a long tapering
ridge with the rest of the mountain on the east, a small
Circular Lake exists which was once thought to be un-
fathomable, but which has now been found compar-
itively shallow. From it western extremity it discharges
a small streamlet called Aultsigh or "The Resting Burn",
which, tumbling down along a rocky channel at the base
of one of the grandest frontlets of Rock in the Highlands,
nearly 1500 feet high, empties itself into Loch Ness
within 3 miles of Invermoriston. This burn constitutes
the boundary between Urquhart and Glenmoriston; [Continued on Page 84b]

Examiners replies to each of the underlined portions
[Glenmoriston] -- Glen Moriston written & described
[Maulfuarmhonvie, or Mealfuarvonie ] -- Is this Mountain known by the Anglicised name or by the Gaelic name Meall Fuar Mhonaidh
[Loch Cluany] -- Written, Loch Cluny
[Kintail] -- In Ross-shire
[Circular Lake] -- Name of lake "Lock a' Mheig" vide [see] Name sheets
[Aultsigh or "The Resting Burn"] -- Written and described
[Invermoriston] -- Vide [See] Name sheets