xVUI 
Bu Lzers OF 
BucHanNne 
PeTeERHEAD. 
CAVERNS AND 
SINGULAR RoCks: 
HOW FORMED. 
SCO ak ON an 
moft exalted one, are the vaft ruins of Duznoier, once the property of the warlike: 
family of the Keiths. The rocks adjacent to it, like the preceding, affume various: 
and grotefque forms. 
A little farther the antient Deva, or Dez, opens into the fea, after forming: 
a harbour to the fine and flourifhing town of Aberdeen. A fandy-coaft continues 
for numbers of miles, part of which is fo moveable as almoft totally to have over- 
whelmed the parith of Furvie: two farms only exift, out of an eftate, in 1600, va-- 
lued at five hundred pounds a year. 
A majeftic rocky coat appears again. The Builers of Buchan, and the noble- 
arched rock, fo finely reprefented by the pencil of the Reverend Mr. Cordiner *,, 
are juftly efteemed the wonders of this country. The former is an amazing. 
harbour, with an entrance through a moft auguf arch of great height and length... 
The infide is a fecure bafon, environed on every fide by mural rocks: the whole- 
projects far from the main land, and is bounded on each fide by deep creeks 5. 
fo that the traveller who chufes to walk round the narrow battlements, a firft 
to be well affured of the ftreneth of his head. 
A little farther is Peterhead, the moft eaftern port of Scotland, the common” 
retreat of wind-bound fhips ; and a port which fully merits the attention of go- 
vernment, to render it more fecure. Kinnaird-head, the Taizalum promontarium, lies: 
a little farther north, and, with the north-eaftern extremity of Cathne/s, forms the: 
firth of Murray, the Tua Eftuarium, a bay of vaft extent. Troup-head is an= 
other vaft cape, to the weft of the former. ‘The caverns and rocks of that pro-- 
montory yield to none in magnificence and fingularity of fhape: of the latter, - 
fome emulate the form of lofty towers, others of inclining pyramids with central‘ 
arches, pervious to boats. The figures of thefe are the effet of chance, and’ 
owing to the collifion of the waves, which wearing away the earth and crumbly’ 
parts, leave them the juft fubjects of our admiration. Sea-plants, fhells, and va- 
rious forts of marine exfanguious animals, cloath their bafes, wafhed by a deep and’ 
clear fea; and their fummits refound with the various clang of the feathered tribe. 
From hence the bay is bounded on the fouth by the extenfive and rich plains: 
of Murray. The fhore wants not its wild beauties. The view of the noble cavern, 
called the rocks of Cau/fie, on the fhore between Burgh-headand Loffie mouth, drawn’ 
by Mr. Cordiner, fully evinces the affertion. The bottom of the bay clofes with the 
firth of Jnverne/s, from whence to the Atlantic ocean is a chain of rivers, lakes, and’ 
bays, with the interruption only of two miles of land between Loch-oich and Loch- 
lochy. Unite thofe two lakes by a canal, and the reft of North Britain would be 
completely infulated. 
* Antiquities and Scenery of Scotland, \etter vi. plates ii. iis 
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