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Encyclopedia Britannica



KINGUSSIE

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 822 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KINGUSSIE , a town of Inverness-shire,
Scotland
 . Pop. (1901), 987. It lies at a height of 750 ft. above sea-level, on the left bank of the Spey, here crossed by a
bridge
 , 461 m. S. by S.E. of Inverness by the Highland railway. It was founded towards the end of the 18th century by the duke of Gordon, in the
hope
  of its becoming a centre of woollen manufactures. This expectation, however, was not realized, but in time the place grew popular as a health resort, the scenery in every direction being remarkably picturesque. On the right bank of the river is Ruthven, where James
Macpherson
  was born in 1736, and on the left bank, some 21 M. from Kingussie, is the
house
  of Belleville (previously known as Raitts) which he acquired from Mackintosh of Borlum and where he died in 1796. The
mansion
 , renamed Balavil by
Macpherson
 's
great
 -grandson, was burned down in 1903, when the fine library (including some MSS. of Sir David
Brewster
 , who had married the poet's second daughter) was destroyed. Of Ruthven Castle, one of the residences of the Comyns of Badenoch, only the ruins of the walls remain. Here the Jacobites made an ineffectual rally under Lord George Murray after the battle of Culloden.


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