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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GLEN ALBYN Glen Albyn
Glen Albyn
Glen Albyn
Glenmore-Nan-Albin
or
Great Glen of Caledonia
C. Fraser McIntosh. esq [esquire] Inverness
Arthur Forbes esq [esquire]
Culloden House
Mr. George Anderson Inspector of Poor, Inverness
Fullarton's Gazetteer Vol1. Page 689
012 Extract from Fullarton's Gazetteer Vol1.
Glenmore-Nan-Albin, that is (the Great Glen of Caledonia, is a term applied to that valley which runs in a direction from North east to South-west, across the whole breadth of the kingdom, from the Moray frith at Inverness to the sound of Mull below Fort.William, and the bottom of which is almost filled with a chain of extensive lakes. The distance in a direct line is little more

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County of Inverness Parish of Inverness & Bona [page] 65
1st column - under Glen Albyn is written 'This Name cannot be written, until the parish is completed - it having to be written centrical - I have written the name on all the margins -' This statement is then initialled ?JM
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