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SHORT S r ATI STIC AL ACCOUNT OF
Diintsee.
Name, if HE modern name of the
town is Dundee. About a century ago, it
was fpek Donde, or Dondie j and in Q.
Mavy\s charter Bondei. In law latin it is
Dei Donum ; and feveral Highlanders af-
fure us, that they confider it as fignifying
what the latin imports ; the gift, or other-
wife the hill of God. Thefe circumftan-
ces lead us to fuppofs, that it obtained ths
name towards the end of the I2th century,
from David Earl of Huntingdon, who, in
confequence of a vow, and in gratitude for
deliverance from a ftorm, on his return
from the holy wars, built the prefent pa-
ri ill church.
SituaiiGn.—Yxova the fouth-fide of Bal-
gay hill, a fmail ftream fprings, and run-
ning eailward is joined by another on the
weft fide of the Law, and both together
continue their courfe fouth-eaft through a
narrow low ground, till after dividing the
town nearly in the middle, they fall into
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