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Excepting the strath of the Spey and the great glens, it consists almost entirely of wild mountainous country, many hills exceeding in height, and contains in the forests of Alder, Drumochter, Gaick and Feshie some of the best deer country in the Highlands.
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strath and Spey
Strathspey ( Scottish Gaelic, Srath Spè ) is the area around the strath of the River Spey, Scotland, in both the Moray council area and the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area of Highland.
The term Strathspey usually refers to the upper part of the strath from the source of the Spey down to the capital, Grantown-on-Spey, whereas the Anglicised form, Speyside, refers to the whole area down to the mouth of the river at Spey Bay.
strath and glens
In the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, the southern ends of Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in particular are etched with glens, although in this region the term " glen " refers most frequently to a narrow gorge, as opposed to a wider valley or strath.
strath and hills
It lies between the Gargunnock and Fintry hills and overlooks the strath of the River Forth.
strath and some
Fintry is a small village in central Scotland, nestled in the strath of the Endrick Water between the Campsie Fells and the Fintry Hills, some 19 miles ( 30. 5 km ) north of Glasgow.
strath and Highlands
Whittow defines it as a " Scottish term for a deep valley in the Highlands " that is " narrower than a strath.
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A wide, flat valley through which a river runs is known in Scotland as a strath.
Strathearn or Strath Earn () (; from Scottish Gaelic ) is the strath of the River Earn, in Scotland.
The A93 road runs along its strath from Braemar to Aberdeen.
Norse settlers called the strath Hjalmundal, meaning Dale of the Helmet, from which the modern village name Helmsdale is derived.
At Braemar, the road then switches east down the strath of the River Dee before crossing the A90 and terminating in Aberdeen.
Strathkelvin ( Srath Chealbhainn in Gaelic ) is the strath of the River Kelvin in west central Scotland, close to the city of Glasgow.
The outflow is to Ullswater, to the north east along the strath of Grisedale.
The name is a hybrid word, from the Scots Gaelic strath, meaning a broad highland valley, and the Māori name Taieri ( traditional spelling Taiari ) of the river which runs through it.
Annandale ( Gaelic: Strath Annan ) is a strath in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, named after the River Annan.
The long strath of Grisedale runs north eastward to Ullswater, cutting off a series of hanging valleys which fall from the Helvellyn range.
* Strathbogie, the old name of Huntly in Scotland, and the strath to the south of it.
There are two basic types of fluvial terraces, fill terraces and strath terraces.
Both fill and strath terraces are, at times, described as being either paired or unpaired terraces based upon the relative elevations of the surface of these terraces.
Hypothetical valley cross-section illustrating a complex sequence of aggradational ( fill ) and degradational ( cut and strath ) terraces.
Note ct = cut terrace, ft = fill terrace, ft ( b ) = buried fill terrace, fp = active floodplain, and st = strath terrace.
These bedrock terraces are the strath terraces and are erosional in nature.
The canal ran up the strath of the River Don from Aberdeen for a total of 18 miles ( 29 km ) to a terminus just south of Inverurie.
The long strath of Grisedale runs north eastward to Ullswater, cutting off a series of hanging valleys which fall from the Helvellyn range.
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