4 8S OF THE MURRAY FIRTH. 



The views from the rifmg grounds around Banff 

 arc fingularly great, and have been 1 . ,-iched 



by a magnificent (Iru&ure, built by the carl of Fh 

 upon a beautiful plain wafhed by t on, \vh< 



lofty banks, cloathed with wood on the oppofite 

 fide, afford a delightful contraft to tru m- 



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The diflant views on the north and car 

 of the great ocean bounded by the horizon, win 

 w.ives, \\ith northerly winds, roll majeilically from 

 the deep, over an extcnfive fandy beach, till th 

 reach the fhon they evaporate in fo.im and 



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The weft view is bounded by the lofty mountains 

 of Rofs (hire, Sutherland, and part of Caithm 

 whofe blue tops are fcarcely diftinguifhable from the 

 clouds. This view, while the fun is clofing his di- 

 urnal journey, is the mod magnificent that can be 

 conceived, and feldom fails of imprefling the mind 

 with a deep fenfeof the great works of God. 



On leaving Banff, we crofs the Devron over a 

 handfoine new bridge of 7 arches, and enter Aber- 

 decnfhire; though a fmall flip on the coaft, ftill 

 forms, with great impropriety, a part of BanfTThire. 

 From Invernefs to this place the coaft is remarkably 

 low, jnfomuch that the fea hath overwhelmed fome 

 thoufand acres, and is ftill making new depreda- 

 tions. 



Immediately after cro (fine the Devron, the country 

 rifes to a confiderable height above the fca, though 

 not mountainous ; the Jhores bold, rocky and pre- 

 cipitous ; abounding in caverns and deep receffes, 

 firpilar to thofe of Sutherland and Caithnefs. 



This coaft is lined with fmall fifhing towns j the 

 firft is Down, fituated at a fhort diftance from the 

 Devron, a neat place, the creation of the prefent 

 earl of Fife, * who, befides accommodating the in- 



His lordfliip hath altered the name to that of MacdufT, the 

 name of his family, and well known in Britiih hiftory. 



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