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| | In the Shadow of Cairngorm - Rise of a Highland Village |
 | | About two miles south of the Castle, and at a lower level, there was a wide moor, part of one of the gravel terraces, common in Strathspey, called the Feith-mhòid. Bounded on the west by the heights of Dreggie, sloping on the east to the mosses and fir-woods of Anagach. |
 | | and on the south opening out into the birch clad knolls of Kirkton, the meadows of Ballintomb and Ballieforth, and the far-stretching pine forest of Abernethy, with the Spey gleaming in the midst, and the Cairngorms as a grand back-ground, it formed a model site for a Highland village. |
 | | Badenoch and Strathern Dealers, or Drovers in the Low Country, as it is not above 18 miles either from Inverness, Fort-George, Nairn, Forres, Elgin, Keith, or Strathboggie and good patent Roads to each of them. |
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