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Encyclopedia Britannica



BEN MACDHUI

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 740 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BEN MACDHUI , more correctly BEN MUICHDHUI (Gaelic for " the mountain of the black pig," in allusion to its shape), the second highest mountain (4296 ft.) in
Great
  Britain, one of the
Cairngorm
  group, on the confines of
south
 -western Aberdeenshire and
south
 -western Banffshire, not far from the eastern boundary of Inverness-shire. It is about 11 m. from
Castleton
  of Braemar and about to from Aviemore. The ascent is usually made from
Castleton
  of Braemar, by way of the Linn of Dee, Glen Lui and Glen Derry. From the head of Glen Derry, with its blasted trees, the picture of desolation, it becomes more toilsome, but is partly repaid by the view of the remarkable columnar cliffs of
Corrie
  Etchachan. The summit is flat and quite bare of vegetation, but the panorama in every direction is extremely grand. At the foot of a vast gully, 2500 ft. above the sea, lies Loch Avon (or A'an), a narrow lake about 11 m. long, with water of the deepest blue and a margin of
bright
  yellow sand. At the western end of the lake is the Shelter Stone, an enormous
block
  of granite resting upon two other blocks, which can accommodate a dozen persons. Beautiful
rock
  crystals occur in veins in the corries. The summit of
Cairngorm
 , 34 M. north of that of Ben Macdhui, may be reached from the latter with scarcely any descent, by following the rugged
ridge
  flanking the western side of Loch Avon. The other
great
  peaks of the group are Braeriach (4248 ft.) and Cairntoul (4241 ft.), and 6 m. to the
east
  are the twin masses of Ben a Bourd, the northern top of which is 3924 ft. and the southern 386o ft. high. Ben A'an, an adjoining hill, is 384.3 ft. high.


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