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Parish of St. [Saint] Andrews Lhanbryd
Extracts from New Statistical Account
The drainage of the Loch of Spynie at the east of nearly 10,000hr [hectares] ..... -- Shewn
is still imperfect.
The late esteemed John Brander, on the hypothesis that the coal of Brora, at
the distance of 100 miles directly opposite on the other side of the firth,
might be found about the same depth on his estate here, bored 97 feet
through a bed of sandstone uniformly continuous, with the exception of a
very thin layer of limestone at two or three different depths. This perforation ... -- Shewn
is Kept open and clearly indicated by a weighty stone put over it.
The Lossie, having now by courtesy the title of river, though but a brook in ...... -- written & described
its ordinary state, being in this parish the drain of about 600 square miles,
its two conjoining brooks, the Lochty and the Lenoch winding through their ..... -- not in this Ph [Parish]
own dun hills. In the excavation of the canal for the drain of the Loch of .......... -- shewn as Speynie canal
Spynie, there were six varieties of shells dug up, of which oysters and
cockles bore the larger proportion. In a new course lately formed for the
brook which works the Mill of Lhanbryd at the distance of 7 miles ...................... -- shewn
southward from the shore, and more than two northward from the hill in
which its component streamlets are united, there was turned out a boulder
of more than a ton weight of blue argillaceous limestone, having its
mass confusedly mingles with a variety of petrified shells.
Antiquities.- This parish had the credit of having preserved two ....................... -- shewn
Druidicals Monuments through all the mutations of nearly 3000 years
until lately when, for the sorry purpose of forming material for roads
and uniting a little spot of pasturage to a cornfield, one of these objects.............. -- Site to be shewn?
was annihilted. The other, at the distance scarcely of a mile, is nearly entire. ...... -- This to be surveyed for 10 Feet plan
Manufactories.- Mr Brown carries on the business of a distillery at ....................... -- shewn & described
Linkwood. The stills are respectively of the contents of 400 and of
170 gallons, manufacturing yearly 1200 quarters of barley, and producing
from 16,000 to 20,000 gallons of fine spirit.
Where this parish presses so closely on the city of Elgin as to have the gentle
Lossie only intervening there are two other manufactories- the one of .............. -- Shewn - Newmill Manufactury
Wool, begun by Alexander Johnston Esq. which employs about 50 people.

[signed]
Corpl [Corporal] Daniels
R.E. [Royal Engineers]