A fauna of the Moray basin . han,with the numerous screes, are all planted and dark with thegreen of the various species of firs. There is abundance of naturalhardwood, birch, oak, etc., some of it fair timber, but mixed withmuch copsewood of hazel and tangled brushwood. Nearing Inver-ness, the hills on the south side fall gradually away before reachingDores, which gives room for cultivation, but on the north side itis only when the comparatively flat ground through which theNess runs that there is much cultivation, though between theDunain woods and Craig Phadrick, which is over 1100 feet inh
A fauna of the Moray basin . han,with the numerous screes, are all planted and dark with thegreen of the various species of firs. There is abundance of naturalhardwood, birch, oak, etc., some of it fair timber, but mixed withmuch copsewood of hazel and tangled brushwood. Nearing Inver-ness, the hills on the south side fall gradually away before reachingDores, which gives room for cultivation, but on the north side itis only when the comparatively flat ground through which theNess runs that there is much cultivation, though between theDunain woods and Craig Phadrick, which is over 1100 feet inheight, the arable ground runs quite up to the top of the hill. Though thus shut in by hills, there is only one of any greatmagnitude. Looking along the almost even outline on the northside, Meall Fuarvounie stands out well and alone, a great mass,round, and with a blunted pinnacle on its summit; this is a veryprominent hill from many places south and east of Inverness. About a mile from the town of Inverness two large mounds. PHYSICAL FEATURES. 69 rise out of the centre of the valley. The more striking of therabecause the more isolated, is the well-known hill of Tomna-liurich, now used as a cemetery; the other lies a little to the southof it, and is called Tor Vean. Both these hills are composedchiefly of gravel, apparently moraines, and are clothed with trees,principally hardwood, such as oak, to their summits; on thesouth-east side the bottom of Tor Vean has been slightly cut awayto make a less sharp curve for the canal. The valley of the Ness is some six or seven miles in length asthe crow flies, and varies from one and a half to three miles inbreadth. The soil is poor, the land being composed mostly of sand andgravel, but fairly good arable ground occurs here and there, and thereare some fair-sized farms, as at Dochfour and Ness-side or Holm,etc. Much of the valley is wooded, and at Ness Castle the banksoverhanging the river are covered with hardwood, principallybeech, to t
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