The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . from theview of the traveller on the north side of the river, are the bridgeand burn of Mooran,2 the vicinity of which is perhaps the mostromantic part of the course of the North Esk, not even except-ing the locality of the Gannochy Bridge. Nothing can surpassthe grandeur of the rocks at this place, which, apart from thesurrounding birks of Carneskcorn, are shaded by a cluster ofother trees of great effulgence and beauty; while a rooflesscot-house, near the end of the bridge, long gr
The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . from theview of the traveller on the north side of the river, are the bridgeand burn of Mooran,2 the vicinity of which is perhaps the mostromantic part of the course of the North Esk, not even except-ing the locality of the Gannochy Bridge. Nothing can surpassthe grandeur of the rocks at this place, which, apart from thesurrounding birks of Carneskcorn, are shaded by a cluster ofother trees of great effulgence and beauty; while a rooflesscot-house, near the end of the bridge, long greatly enriched the 1 The bridge bears this inscription :— 1820 ; Built by the Honourable WilliamMaule of Panniure, , and John Shand of The Burn, Esq.—Mr. Shand havingcontributed to this Bridge and Road one hundred guineas, as a mark of his Friend-ship for his Neighbours in the Waterside and Glenesk.—Q. D. B. ; J. A. JSdif. 2 From the Mooran a supply of water was taken to Brechin in 1874 at a cost ofabout £18,000, the ceremony of letting on the water being performed by the lateEarl of
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