NAIRN 



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NAMA 



Nairn. l!o\al ami mini. 



"| N'.ui: 



i.l : al-o tlit' county town. 

 It stands 

 when- the 

 Nairn falls in- 

 to the Moray 

 Firth. I.", in. 

 from IIIMT- 

 noss, ami is 



.-el\ed llV the 



Ili-jhlami lily. 



Nairn teal The attrac- 



Include good bathing and golf 

 links. It has a good harbour, and 

 tin- * hiet industries arc fishing and 

 tin- inaUinir of rope. Nairn, known 

 then ,i> I n\ ernairn. \\as made a 

 nival liinx'li in the 12th century. 

 POO. J.TIMI. 



Nairne, CAROMNA, BAK 

 (ITtiti is !.-.. S,,.'tish ballad- 

 writer Daughter of Lauren* e 

 Oliphant, and 

 a member of a 

 prominent 

 Jacobite fami- 

 ly, she was 

 born at Cask, 

 P e r t h s h i re, 

 Aug. 16. 17(56, 

 and in 1806 

 married her 

 seeniid cousin, 

 William, after- 

 wards Baron Nairne (1757-1830), 

 to whom she bore one son, William 

 (1808-37). Her beauty and charm 

 won for her the name of The 

 Flower of Strathearn. After her 

 husband's death she lived in Ire- 

 land and on the Continent, and 

 died at Gask, Oct. 26, 1845. She 

 wrote nearly 100 songs, some of 

 them adaptations of old favourites, 

 among them The Land o' the Leal, 

 Caller Herrin', and The Laird o' 

 Cockpen. First published anony- 

 mously in The Scottish Minstrel, 

 1M.M 24, they were issued in 

 volume form in 1846 as Lavs from 



Baroness Nairne, 

 Scottish ballad writer 



St tat li >nd Songs of 



I. ul\ N iii'lie. ( '. l!o-.-i-i ^. 1 M'.!I : 

 .J.iecil.ile I. Hid- U. Oli 



jihant. I^Ti); Lady Nairne and her 



I . llemi. . Till- 



( Miphants of (Jii-.U. I: 



itu Family, M. E. Blair- 

 Oliphant, 1910. 



.Nairnshire. Maritime county 



of Scotland. It has about 10 m. of 

 eoa^tlini* on the Moray Firth, and 



Nairn. 



the 



Nairnshire. Map of the Highland 

 county south of Moray Firth 



General view of the town and banks of 

 Nairn, from the North 



the surface rises therefrom towards and in the 



the S., attaining an alt. of 2,162 ft. 



in Carn Glas. Its area is 162 sq. m. 



The chief rivers are the Findhorn 



and the Nairn. The county is an 



agricultural area, but much of the 



land is only suitable for sheep. 



It is served by the Highland Rly. 



Nairn is the county town, and in 



the shire are Cawdor and Kilravock 



with their castles and Auldearn. 



In 1891 detached portions of 



Nairnshire were absorbed in the 



counties of Ross, Inverness, and 



Moray. In early times, Nairn was 



part of the district called Moray, 



and it has always had a close 



association with the shire of that 



name. It joins with Moray to send 



a member to Parliament. Pop. 



9,300. See History of Moray and 



Nairn, C. J. G. Rampini, 1897. 



Nairobi. Administrative capi- 

 tal of Kenya Colony, E. Africa. 

 Situated on an elevated plateau, 

 alt. 5,450 ft., it is within easy reach 

 of the Kikuyu and Limoru high- 

 lands. There are two rainy seasons, 

 but the climate is healthy and in- 

 vigorating. Nair- 

 obi is on the 

 Uganda Rly., 327 

 m. from Mombasa, 

 and 257 m. from 

 Kisumu (Port Flo- 

 rence) on the Vic- 

 toria Nyanza. In 

 1899 it was only a 

 rly. settlement, but 

 is now a flourish- 

 ing centre. Pop. 

 (est.) 20,000. 

 Naivasha. Prov., 

 town, and lake in 

 Kenya Colony, E. 



The prov ho* a Kir 



pop. of about 1,600 and a . 

 l>li. of approximately l.'M.OOO. 

 The Nakura dixtiiet w extensively 

 cultivated I*ake Naivasha U about 

 12 m. long by 'J in. broad, and 

 the water u nlijjhtly bni<-ki-h. 

 The township on the E. of the 

 lake in on the Uganda RK 

 m. from Mombasa, and 64 m. N.U 

 of Nairobi. 



Najibabad. 

 Town of the 

 United Provin- e-. 

 India, in the 

 IliiiM.r di-i. It U 

 situated in the N. 

 of the dist., and 

 is a rly. junction 

 on the route from 

 Delhi to Dehr.i. 

 I 'op. 18,500. 



Nakhitchevan. 

 Tow n of Erivan 

 in Transcaucasia. 

 It is 85 m. S.K. 

 of Krivan. Leather, 

 brieks,and pottery 

 are manufactureu, 

 neighbourhood arc 

 important salt mines and stone 

 quarries. It is the Naxuana of 

 Ptolemy. Once an important Ar- 

 menian city, it belonged to Persia 

 from 1673 to 1828, when it was 

 ceded to Russia. Pop. 9,000. 



Nakhitchevan-on-Don. Town 

 of S. Russia. It is in the govern- 

 ment of Ekaterinoslav, on the Don 

 and the Koslov-Rostov Rly. 

 Candles, cotton goods, and bricks 

 are the chief manufactures. It is 

 the seat of an Armenian patriarch. 

 Pop. 54,000. 



Nama OR NAMAQUA. Division of 

 the Hottentot people, mostly in 

 Namaqualand, S.W. Africa pro- 

 tectorate. Numbering 14,000, they 

 have preserved their racial type 

 and speech more completely than 

 the Korana division, who remained 

 behind in the upper Orange basin. 

 From 1881 to 1906 they were in 

 incessant conflict either with the 

 Herero, or with the Germans. 

 Despite missionary influence they 

 still cling to their ancestral pas- 

 toral nomadism. See Hottentot. 



Nairobi, Kenya Colony. Government House, situated 

 on a hill overlooking the town 



