ABERDEENSHIRE . 



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Dunnotar Castle stands ou a bold porpliyritic rock to the south. Findon (noted for 

 its haddocks), Bertie, and Johnshaven are mere fishing villages. The principal 

 villages in the interior of the county are Fordoun and Arhuthnot, both with mineral 



Fig. 182. — MoxTuosE. 

 i rjin the Ordnance Map. Scale 1 : C3,2G3. 



1 Mile. 



wells; Kincardine, the old county town; Laurcncehirk ; and Marykirli, with a 

 Catholic college. 



Aberdeenshire extends from the mouth of the Dee to that of the Doveran, 

 and is shut in, on the south and west, by bold spurs of the Grampians. It 

 includes the valley of the Dee, which flows through the districts of Braemar and 

 Mar ; that of the Don, which drains Alford and Garioch ; that of the Ythan, 



