. Moray and Nairn. ty are the beautiful Oak Wood and QuarryWood. Elgin was probably a royal burgh in the time ofDavid I. The royal charter which it received from Alexander IIin 1234 is a treasured possession. The transference of thecathedral to Elgin in 1224 was the making of the burgh,and from that time burgh and bishopric worked togetherharmoniously and prospered until the Reformation made thembitter antagonists. To the patronage of David I and Alexander IIin particular, the town owed much of its prosperity. James II 92 MORAYSHIRE visited Elgin in 1457, and James IV in 1490. To-day Elgin iso
. Moray and Nairn. ty are the beautiful Oak Wood and QuarryWood. Elgin was probably a royal burgh in the time ofDavid I. The royal charter which it received from Alexander IIin 1234 is a treasured possession. The transference of thecathedral to Elgin in 1224 was the making of the burgh,and from that time burgh and bishopric worked togetherharmoniously and prospered until the Reformation made thembitter antagonists. To the patronage of David I and Alexander IIin particular, the town owed much of its prosperity. James II 92 MORAYSHIRE visited Elgin in 1457, and James IV in 1490. To-day Elgin isone of the most attractive towns of Scotland. With a finesituation and a salubrious climate, it is largely a residentialtown. The Cooper Park, presented by Sir George AlexanderCooper, Bart., in 1902, is a favourite resort. In the museum isa valuable and interesting collection of Old Red Sandstonefossils. The cathedral surpasses all the other antiquities ininterest. A stone coffin which is within the ruins is said to. Findhorn have contained the body of King Duncan before the removal ofhis remains to Iona. To the east of the cathedral there existed,until comparatively recent times, a deep pool, and the place stillgoes by the name of the Order Pot. This is plainly a corruptionfor Ordeal Pot, for at this place many an old hag went throughthe ordeal of water, (pp. 6, 17, 21, 26, 27, 29, 36, 37, 43, 51,56, 57, 58, .59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81,83, 84, 87.) CHIEF TOWNS AND VILLAGES 93 Findhorn is a small seaport on the peninsula to the eastof Findhorn Bay. A branch railway was opened between thevillage and Kinloss in i860; but, proving a financial failure, theline was discontinued, (pp. 12, 23, 50, 51.) Fochabers, a beautiful town on the right bank of theSpey, is an old burgh of barony. Its market-cross, with part otthe jougs, may still be seen in the grounds of Gordon Castle,where the original village stood till the end of the eighteenth cen-tury. Milnes Ins
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