PHYSICAL FEATURES. 



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circular valley divided from the lower narrower basin, at the 

 bridge on the county march. 



The Carx Districts of Spey. 



The Southern Cam Districts, or the Cam Districts of Spey, 

 embrace a great mass of country which may be shortly defined as 

 stretching east of the forest tracts of Spey and lying around the 

 head-waters of the river Avon and its larger tributary streams 

 such as Livet, Bum of Brown, and Conglass, and round Deveron 

 and Blackwater, and the Bogie of the Deveron Watershed, and 

 Fiddich of Spey. This Carn District stretches over our eastern 

 and south-eastern watersheds and embraces the head-streams of 

 Don (within the faunal area of 'Dee'), where the country to a 

 large extent presents aspects similar to those we intend presently 

 to describe, in so far as relates to our side of the watershed. 

 Our Carn District extends west and east from the Cromdale Hills, 

 eastward, through the Braes of Livet, Dullan, and Fiddich, includ- 

 ing their watersheds; past the heights of Upper Deveron and 

 Blackwater; still eastward to Bogie and its twin stream the 

 Kirkney Burn, embracing the many Cams or lower hills, which 

 present for the most part rounded sky-lines, rising to elevations 

 of from 1800 to 2500 feet, and reaching over into Glen Bucket 

 and Don. From north to south, it may be said to include the 

 lands stUl partaking of these same rounded outlines and lesser 

 elevations — foot-hills of the great ranges, from the basements of 

 the mighty hill Ben Einnes in the north, which lies close by 

 the banks of Spey, and which overtops the other hills and reaches 

 a height of 2750 feet — and reaches southwards to the 2500 feet 

 levels around the head-waters oi Conglass and the middle districts 

 of Avon. 



The principal features of this immense tract of pastoral country, 

 exclusive of the more agricultural portions in the narrow glens 

 are the uniformly rounded shapes of the hills — usually called 

 Cams — such as Cam Mor, 2630 feet, and the hills already spoken 

 of under our description of the Deveron Valley near its sources, in 

 the Cabrach — all having been subjected to ice-action; also the 

 lower connecting cols or long ridges between the Cams, and which 



