. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. ABERDEENSHIRE tains of Braemar. Agates, of a fine polisli and beautifulvariety, have been got on the shore near , talc, syenite, and mica also have been springs of celebrated character are at Peterheadand Pannanich. The surface of the mountains for the most part iseither bare rock or such thin poor soil as admits oflittle or no profitable improvement even for the purposesof hill pasture ; that of the moorlands and the mossescomprises many tracts which m
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. ABERDEENSHIRE tains of Braemar. Agates, of a fine polisli and beautifulvariety, have been got on the shore near , talc, syenite, and mica also have been springs of celebrated character are at Peterheadand Pannanich. The surface of the mountains for the most part iseither bare rock or such thin poor soil as admits oflittle or no profitable improvement even for the purposesof hill pasture ; that of the moorlands and the mossescomprises many tracts which might be thoroughlyreclaimed, and not a few which have, in recent times,been greatly improved; and that of the lowland dis-tricts has a very various soil,—most of it naturallypoor or churlish, a great deal now transmuted by judi-cious cultivation into fine fertile mould, and somenaturally good dilu\ium or rich alluviuxa, now in veryproductive arable condition. Spongy humus and coarsestiff clays are common in the higher districts; andlight sands and finer clays prevail in the valleys andon the seaboard. S
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