Gazetteer of Scotland

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feen. The plantation in the parifh is
extenfive, and finely laid out ; every
unimprovable crevice, glen, and moun-
tain, is covered with trees, of which
the prefent value is immenie : they
were long fmce eftimated at upwards
of ioo,oooi. but, from the increase of
growth, and the advanced price of
timber, they are calculated to be worth
thrice that fum. " Some of the beech
trees," fays Mr. Knox, ,fr are from 91 to
1 z feet in circumference, and tlie pines
from 6 to 9. ; but thefe being compa-
ratively few, we fhall ftate the medium
girth of 2,ooo,o«o trees, planted within
the laft 100 years, at 3 feet, and the
medium value at 4s. which produces
400,000!. and this for the moft part
on ground unfit for the plough, being
moftly compofed of hill and rock."
The thinning of the wood, to allow
the remaining trees to grow, produces
not lefs than 1500I. annually. The
population in 179a, as returned to Sir
John Sinclair, was 1832, being a de-
creafe of 919 Snee 1755. This de-
creafe, however, was only in appear-
ance, the enumeration in- 175 5 having
been made up while the raffle was fi-
jufhing, which required a great num-
ber of hands that became no longer
neceffary when it was completed.
INVERARITY; a parifh in the
county of Forfar, about 3 miles fquare.
The furface is uneven, and a great
part of the foil muiry, and unimprov-
able. There is, however, a growing
fpirit for agriculture, but enclofures
are ftill rare, and the old fyftem of in-
ceffant cropping is ftiil adhered to in
many farms. The principal manure
employed is marl, brought from the
loch of Forfar, at the diftance of 5
miles. There are few old trees, but,
of late years, the chief proprietors
have planted a confiderable extent of
the wafts lands, which are very thriv-
ing, and muft eventually turn to good
account. There are the remains of
two rectangular camps in the parifh,
fuppofed to have been military fixa-
tions of the Romans under Agricola,
in his fixth campaign, when he ob-
tained his victory over the Caledonians
under Galgacus, their chief. In 1793,
the population, as Mated in the ftatif-
tical report of Mr. Webfter, amounted
to 929.
1NVE RAVEN; a parifh on the
banks of the Aven y near the conflu-
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erise of that river with the SpeT. K
is fituated partly in Elginfhire", but
the greater part is in the county of
Banff; it is about 18 miles long, and
5 broad ; and, befides the Avert and
Spey, is watered by the Lbvet, a ftream
which gives the name of Glenlivet to
a confiderable diftrict of the parilh.
The furface is irregular, but cannot
be called mountainous ; the foil in the
lower grounds is wet and moffy ; on
the fides of the hills light and dry,
and, farther elevated, it becomes
muiry : the diftrict of Gletilivet is re-
markably fertile, the foil being a light
loam, on a bed of limeftone " rock.
The fides of the rivers abound with?
copfcs of birch and alder, and on the
banks of the Spey there is a confider-
able extent of oak wood : on the e-
ftate of General 1 Grant there are late-
ly laid out fome extenfive plantations?
of different foreft trees. Ballendalloch,
the feat of General Grant, is an ele-
gant houfe, fituated at the confluence
of the Avert with the Spey. There
are 3 druidical temples. In 1799, the
population was 2244.
INVERBERVIE, commonly called
BERVIE ; a royal borough in Kin-
cardinefhire. Vide Bervie.
INVERCHAOLAIN ; a parifh in
the diftrict of Cowal, in Argyllfhire %.
interfered for 8 miles by Loch Streveti,
an arm of the fea, and watered by a
fmall rivulet, which joins the loch at
this place. The furface is for the moft:
part rugged ; a ridge of mountains
rifes with a fteep afcent all along the
coaft, which is about 3 miles in ex»»
tent, on the N. fide of the channel
which Separates Cowal from the ifle
of Bute. In fome places there are
fmall flat fields nigh the fliore ; but,
for the moft part, the afcent from the
fea is immediate ; and, about half a
mile inland, the foil is thin and fandy,
only adapted for pafturage. All the
mountains formerly were covered with
heath,but manyof them are now cloth-*
ed with a rich pile of grafs, fince the
introduction of fheep. Thofe fields-
which are capable of tillage, are ma-
naged in the old way of farming, ex-
cept the farm of James Lamont, Efq.
of Knockdow, who, under many dif-
advantages of climate and foil, raifes
crops equal to any in the W. of Scot-
land. There is a confiderable extent,
of natural wood, which forms an ar-