. Kingussie and Upper Speyside (Badenoch) : a Descriptive Guide to the District, With Map of Badenoch. (5ui6e to StratbspeiP. I.—PRELIMINARY I GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY S situated on the Highland Railway, 712 feetabove sea level, 96 miles north of Perth,and 48 miles south of Inverness. It is inElginshire, what was formerly calledMorayshire—Gaelic Mor-aVy , sea-side—and contains a resident population offully 1,500. It is of comparatively^yjJ^^^ modern erection. The first houses wereS^Xte^A erected in 1766, mainly by Sir JamesGrant (the Good Sir James), and inthe appendix will be found a re
. Kingussie and Upper Speyside (Badenoch) : a Descriptive Guide to the District, With Map of Badenoch. (5ui6e to StratbspeiP. I.—PRELIMINARY I GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY S situated on the Highland Railway, 712 feetabove sea level, 96 miles north of Perth,and 48 miles south of Inverness. It is inElginshire, what was formerly calledMorayshire—Gaelic Mor-aVy , sea-side—and contains a resident population offully 1,500. It is of comparatively^yjJ^^^ modern erection. The first houses wereS^Xte^A erected in 1766, mainly by Sir JamesGrant (the Good Sir James), and inthe appendix will be found a reproduction of theoriginal ^ advertisement of the founder. The olderhouses are held on a lease of 190 years, at tack-dutiesranging up to £1. The newer houses, elegant of them, are built some on feus ranging up toabout £10 per acre and others on a 99 years leaseat a ground rent of about £4 an acre. The town has aPublic Hall, several banking houses, the Grant ArmsHotel, the Police Office and County Buildings, the Sea-field Estate Offices, and the Orphan Hospital—Doricin design—an institution founded by Dr. Gregory Grant,of
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