. Moray and Nairn. Elgin. Few earldoms shine so brightly in the annalsof our country. Randolph, the first earl, Black Agnesof Dunbar, the Good Earl of Moray, are namesfamiliar to every student of Scottish history. On 3rd July, 1650, Charles II landed at Garmouthafter his first exile in Holland. This campaign was toend Jit Worcester. The battle of Cromdale (1690),where General Buchan was defeated by the Governmenttroops under General Livingstone, was the expiring flameof the Jacobite rising, which had been ruined by thedeath of Dundee at Killiecrankie, and by the disaster atDunkeld. In 1715 and
. Moray and Nairn. Elgin. Few earldoms shine so brightly in the annalsof our country. Randolph, the first earl, Black Agnesof Dunbar, the Good Earl of Moray, are namesfamiliar to every student of Scottish history. On 3rd July, 1650, Charles II landed at Garmouthafter his first exile in Holland. This campaign was toend Jit Worcester. The battle of Cromdale (1690),where General Buchan was defeated by the Governmenttroops under General Livingstone, was the expiring flameof the Jacobite rising, which had been ruined by thedeath of Dundee at Killiecrankie, and by the disaster atDunkeld. In 1715 and in 1745 practically all Moray-shire was solid in its allegiance to the few weeks before Culloden, Prince Charles Edward 58 MORAYSHIRE marched into Moray, where he spent eleven days, mostlyin Elgin. He stayed in Thunderton House, the occupierat that time being a Mrs Anderson, an ardent supporterof the Jacobite cause. About a month later the Duke ofCumberland passed through the town in great haste, and. Thunderton House shortly afterwards shattered Jacobitism on the bloodyfield of Drummossie (1746). Morayshire has twice suffered devastations withoutparallel in the history of Scotland. The first of thesewas the destruction of the Barony of Culbin, alreadymentioned. The other calamity is well known as the HISTORY 59 Moray Floods of 2nd, 3rd and 4th August, 1829,splendidly described by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. Thenoise, says he, was a distinct combination of two kindsof sound—one a uniformly continued roar, the other like rapidly repeated discharges of many cannons at once Above all this was heard the fiend-like shriek of the wind,yelling as if the demon of desolation had been riding upon its blast The rain was descending in sheets, not in drops, and there was a peculiar and indescribable lurid orrather bronze-like hue, that pervaded the whole face ofnature as if poison had been abroad in the air. At oneplace on the Findhorn observations showed that the riverhad rise
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