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THE HISTORIE OF SCOTLAND.
throuch the les labour, and expenses, the ground
prouydes quhat is sufficient for thame, frilie as it war.
Thair is a castel weil fortified, quhais name is Dunrobin,
and vthiris no4 few touris erected to dryue away theiues
neirhand, quha vses nocht sindle to dryue the pray 5
thairfra.
Morayiand A * parte of Rosse is Moray land, and lyes vpon the
maist beu-
tifui. cost syde. It is a cuntrey alane by all the rest com-
me^zdet with ws, for baith plentie and pleisure. for it is
eivin and plane, without 134dubis and myres, meruellous 10
delectable in fair forrests, in thik wodis, in sueit 135 sair-
ing flouris, weil smelling herbis, pleisant medowis, fyne
quheit, and al kynde of stuffe, orchardes and fruitful
gairdings, and than sa neir the coste; Thair is the air
maist hailsum, vncorrupte, temperat, thair cludis and rain 15
mekle les than in ony vthir place, and f thairfor, sa gret
incresse and plentie of cornes amang the nobilitie of the
cuntrey. X Thair the land bowing the selfe be litle and
litle, with a certane laich 136 lout and bend with her bosum,
fyue Saimo« sche into the mane sey spoutis out thir v. fludes, the 20
fludes.
Nesse, the Nardme, Fmdorn, Losse, and Spey, in
quhilkes all, abundance of Salmont, ar takne, bot maist
in spey. Nathir is alane this proffit obteined in the
mouthis and entries of the riueris, in mony places, bot
the space of mair than lx. myles abone, 30 euin quhair
the Loch selfe flowis out. heir sal 36 sie vpon baith
the sydes of the riuer, for the fertilitie of the ground, the
clemencie of the hevin, and gentlenes of the wethir,
* L. “ Rossise quidem Moravia, pars illius regionis quondam
Vararis dictse, littus adversus adjacet ”—Moray, a part of the
district once called Vararis, lies next to Ross, towards the shore.
Ptolemy calls the Beauly Firth “Vararis sinus.”
t L. “ atque adeo magna propterea nobilium virorum seges ”—and
on this account a great number of nobility.
J L. “ Illic magno quidem sinu terra se paululum inclinans,” &c.—
There in a large bay the land gently inclining sends five rivers into
the German Sea.