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| | Historical perspective for Bass Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | According to Hugh Miller, the Bass is probably a mass of lava, which was moulded in a tubular crater, and from around which, after it cooled and hardened, all the more yielding rocks were swept away. |
 | | At the Revolution the Bass was yielded early in the war, but on 15 June 1691,4 young Jacobite prisoners shut the fort's gate against its garrison of 50, who were all outside engaged in landing coal. |
 | | Bass, a conical mound, some 40 feet high, on the right bank of the Urie, at the S end of Inverurie town, Aberdeenshire. |
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