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| Gamrie | parish, and of the eastern adjoining one of Aberdour, in Some places perpendicular towards the Sea to the height of 600 feet, and in all precipitous. **** From the bay of Gamrie alone of all the coast, except at the western extremity, before the high rocKs commence, the land rises gradually, that is, from the top of the braes, with more or less acclivity, for upwards of a mile into the interior. The most Singular appearance of all the other coast iS, that it is not the termination of higher lands from the interior, but that it Slopes down from the Sea towards the South, Sometimes immediately, but generally after a few furlongs of plain on the top, and forms glens parallel with the Shore, which are Scarcely less admired than the Shore itself, for their rich verdure, and picturesque scenery. **** Another circumstance that diversifies much the appearance of the parish is, that the Rocks on the Coast are not carried wholly in a continuous chain from end to end, but are broKen in upon with chasms or cross dens to their very bottomS, appearing as if the Rocks had been Rent Asunder by Some great convulsion. In the zigzag projections of the oppoSite Sides of these cross dens, each protruberance of the one corresponds with a liKe opening of the other. **** There are Some pretty and luxuriant belts of wood in the western extremity of the parish **** The chief plantation, however is the Tore of Troup, which, together with the woods of Troup House, measures upwards of 700 imperial acreS." New Statistical Account The western part of the parish of Gamrie was erected A parish Quoad Sacra in 1866 under the name of Macduff. |
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