OS1/12/18/88

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PASS OF SOURDEN Pass of Sourden Mr W. Gordon Crofts
Mr A. Riach Rothes
Mr J. Mantach Dundurcas
018.11 The road now approaches the ruin and there was little more than room for its bed between the road and the opposite bank which is formed by the high projecting land of Aikenway which gives name to an ancient Castle, the ruins of of which may yet be traced on the top of the Rock. Though the River was here so greatly Contracted - the distance from the promontory to the opposite hill being only 237 feet- yet the Railway has thrust itself between it and the Road. Here during the flood of 1829, the River rose 20 feet 10 inches above its ordinary height, and 15 inches above the mark made to record the much-talked-of flood of 1768. its
general Course has hitherto been from West to east; but this promontory makes it henceforth pursue a Northerly direction, till it falls into the Sea, In the rocks on the right hand side of the Road will be found narrow veins of Barytes, or heavy Spar.
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Parish of Rothes -- Elginshire

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William Sillifant
Sapr RE [Sapper Royal Engineers]
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