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fir new degree of confidence and fecuriry which 

 took place, after the feuds were ( d, which 



the front of the But to 



ranfac'tion it may allude, it can 

 thai in fo early an age of the 

 in Scotland, as it mull have born railed, fo 

 elaborate a performance would have been un 

 but i Ke of an event of the molt g< 



impi ing, that no dif- 



tin6t< c arrived at the jera when letters 



known. 



height of th: iment (called king 



Sueno's (lone) above the g ; befidcs 



i : 15 feet under ground. Its breadth is 3 feet 

 io inches, by I fot>' n thicknefs." 



About 6 miles north-call from Korres, on the lea 

 '\ of Murray antient and re- 



fpcctable fort remity of a narrow pro- 



montory or 1, iic firth, 



appea ive been the iilual landing place of the 



Danes and Norwegians in their dclcents on that 

 province. 



The extremity of the peninfula was formed with 

 an ifland, by of a great ditch cut acrols. An 



immenfc mound \ and ftones furrounds the 



sera of t and will be a lading memorial of 



the labour bellowed on making it impregnable. 

 The triple ditch and rampart, which <1 1 the 



creek, arc yet entire. The top had been defended 



jr$ of oa mother. This j 



fccms to have be ed about the end of the loth 



Th: s below Forres is the port of Findorn, 



.;h io or 12 coafting vclVcls. On the bay' 

 of Kmdorn, are the ruins of K '.)bey, where 



fomc labourers empl< iway the rub- 



bifh, difcovercd fcveral rows of finely fluted pillars, 

 that had fupported roofs of great extent, of v. 

 no vcltiges now remain. Near the abbey is an 

 H orchard 



