Descriptive account of the principal towns in Scotland

STONEHAVEN,
Stonehaven, or Stonehive, is a sea-port Town,
in the parish of Dunnottar, in Kincardine-shire, situa-.
ted on that part of the coast, where the river of Car-
ron, and the water of Cowie, pour their joint streams
into the German Ocean. It lies 15 miles south by west
of Aberdeen, 22 miles south by east of Montrose, 13
north-east of Laurencekirk, 67 north-east of Perth,
and 116 miles north-east of Edinburgh, by Dundee
and Perth.
It consists of an old and new Town. The old town
stands upon the south of the Carron, and is a strag-
gling and irregularly built place, adjoining the Har-
bour ; containing two streets of houses, built on ground
originally fued by one of the Earls Marischal. The
parish church of Dunnottar, is built on a picturesque
and sequestered spot, about a mile and a half from
the harbour.
The Harbour is a natural Basin, sheltered on the
south east, by high rocks, and protected from the sea,
by a stone pier on each side ; which renders it ex-
tremely convenient for loading and discharging car-