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important sMp-yards for the construction of fast-sailing clippers and iron steamers. 

 Quarries are worked in the neighbourhood, and the yards in which granite and 

 marble are polished have not their equal elsewhere in Great Britain. Amono- 

 the exports are also strawberries, vegetables, and cattle. 



The upper valley of the Dee is much frequented by tourists, on account of 



Fig. 184. — Balmoral. 

 From the Ordnance Map. Scale 1 : C3,O0O. 



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its picturesque scenery, but it is a mere pastoral and sporting region without 

 towns. BaUafer, the principal of its villages, has mineral, springs ; above it is 

 the sumptuous royal castle of Balmoral; and still deeper amongst the hills the 



