The Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment, Forres, Morayshire / William B. Hunter.

  • Hunter, William B.
Date:
1869
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Credit: The Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment, Forres, Morayshire / William B. Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    another combination of all that is lovely and grand in land¬ scape scenery—wood and water, mountain and cultivated ground, all in their most beautiful forms, combine together to render it pre-eminent.” To those in search either of health or pleasure, the neighbourhood of Forres affords many attractions. Fore¬ most among them must be placed the Banks of the “ rapid and glorious Findhorn—the very perfection of a Highland river,” with a profusion of scenery which has been pro¬ nounced unrivalled by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder—than whom few were better qualified to give an opinion on such a subject. “ In truth,” he says, “ I know no river scenery in Great Britain at all to be compared in sublimity to that of the Findhorn. Indeed it rises more into that great scale of grandeur exhibited by some of the Swiss gorges than anything I have ever met with at home.” Other objects or places of interest are Sueno’s Stone, the admiration and the puzzle of the antiquary; Dalvey Gardens, which contain one of the choicest collections of rare and beautiful exotic plants to be met with in the kingdom; the Ruins of the Abbey of Kinloss; Darnaway Castle, the seat of the Earl of Moray; Altyre House and Grounds, the seat of Sir William Gordon Gumming, Bart.; the Romach Loch; and those immense mounds of ever-shifting yet never departing sand, that cover what was two centuries ago the fertile estate of Culbin. More distant, but within easy reach by railway or otherwise, are Elgin, with the ruins of its noble Cathedral; the Priory of Pluscarden, beautifully situated in the valley of the same name ; the remarkable promontory of Burghead, still crowned by traces of ancient fortifications; the perpendi¬ cular rocks and caves of Covesea; the “ Blasted Heath,” or rather all that now remains of it, sacred to the “weird sisters” of immortal memory; Gordon Castle, the seat of the Duke of Richmond; Cawdor Castle, the seat of the Earl of b 2
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