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[Extracts from New Statistical Account -- United Parishes of Urquhart and Glenmoriston... continued]

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and, displaying near its mouth an unusually beautiful
Waterfall, and another equally fine one about 2 miles
farther up, shaded with foliage of the richest dye.
On the summit of the hill to the west of the burn, there is
a Rocking-stone, which two persons can move, about
20 feet in circumference. This burn's parent lake is
also supposed occasionally when swollen to send off
a streamlet towards the north; or, at least, the hollow or deep
ravine which collects infant waters of the Coiltie,
which flows along the southern margin of the vale of Urquhart,
begins very near the northern extremity of this loch.
A tributary of this water called the Divach, amid
beautiful and dense groves of birch, displays a waterfall
as high and Picturesque as that of Foyers; and near the
source of the Enneric river, which flows from
Corrymony into the Hill basin of Loch Meikly, another
smaller, though highly picturesque cascade, called the Fall of
Moral, is to be seen. Near it is a Cave capable of re-
ceiving 16 or 20 persons, in which several of the prin-
cipal gentlemen of the district for a time concealed
themselves from the Hanoverian soldiers after the
Rebellion of 1745. The Falls of Divach are seldom
supplied with a sufficientcy of water to give them that
decided grandeur which they possess when the river is
in Speat. The burn which falls from Aberiachan on
the confines of the parish of Inverness, displays a succession
of beautiful perpendicular falls and running cataracts and
that of Aultguish , (or the Fir-tree burn,) in the forest of
Ruisky, eastward of Aultsigh, presents a continuous
cataract, which, from the lake below, looks like a long white ribbon
streaking the mountain side, and part of which consists of
a single leap at least 100 feet high.
Beneath, in the glen itself, and along both sides of the
river Moriston, stratified gneiss prevails; but [Continued on Page 84c]

Examiners replies to each of the underlined portions
[Rocking-stone] -- Rocking stone written and described
[Coiltie] -- Shewn
[Divach] -- Shewn
[Enneric river] -- written River Enrick
[Corrymony & Loch Meikly] -- written Loch Meiklie & Corrimony.
[Fall of Moral] -- written Corrimony Falls
[Cave] -- written Monys Cave
[The Falls of Divach] -- written
[Aberiachan] -- in Inss Ph. [Inverness Parish]
[Aultguish] -- not Known
[Aultsigh] -- Shewn
[river Moriston] -- Vide [See] name sheet