. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . don 24 July 1651 received a visit from Oliver Hill, extending | mile from SE to NW, presentsto the SW a precipitous columnar front about 70 feethigh, attains an elevation of 380 feet above sea-level,and terminates abruptly in a bold wooded bluff. Dun-Daviot. See Daviot, , a town and a parish, or group of parishes onthe southern border of Forfarshire. The town standschiefly in its own parish, but partly also in the parish ofLitf and Ben vie. It is
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . don 24 July 1651 received a visit from Oliver Hill, extending | mile from SE to NW, presentsto the SW a precipitous columnar front about 70 feethigh, attains an elevation of 380 feet above sea-level,and terminates abruptly in a bold wooded bluff. Dun-Daviot. See Daviot, , a town and a parish, or group of parishes onthe southern border of Forfarshire. The town standschiefly in its own parish, but partly also in the parish ofLitf and Ben vie. It is a royal burgh, a great seat ofmanufacture, an extensive seaport, the largest seat ofpopulation in Scotland next to Glasgow and Edinburgh,and the rival, or more than the rival, of these cities andof the most prosperous of other Scottish towns, in412 DUNDEE modern rapidity of extension. It occupies a reach offlats and slopes on the N side of the Firth of Tay,34 miles W of Broughty Ferry, 9 W of Buddon Ness,14 S by W of Forfar, 21S ENE of Perth, 42 [vitl Cupar-Fife) N by E of Edinburgh, and 84 NE of Seal of Dundee. The ground beneath and around it rises rapidly from abelt of plain, through undulating braes, to roundedhills, and culminates directly N of the to^vn, about IJmile from the shore, in the summit of Dundee edificed area, seen in profile, is picturesque ; theoutskirts are well embellished with wood and culture ;Dundee Law, rising to an altitude of 571 feet above sea-level, has a fine, verdant, dome-shaped summit ; BalgayHill, a lesser eminence a little further W, is sheetedwith wood ; and the entire town and environs, beheld inone view from Broughty Ferry Road, or from the S sideof the Tay, look richly beautiful. Bonnie Dundeeis a designation originally given to the persecutorClaverhouse, recognising his outward or physical comeli-ness, and ignoring his inward or moral hideousness;and it applies in a somewhat analogous way to the town,whence he took his
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