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... improved strains were gradually introduced . Barley , which did well in the sunny Moray Firth coastlands and was sought after by the distillers , provided another cereal where the land could support it . Rotation of these crops , as ...
... improved strains were gradually introduced . Barley , which did well in the sunny Moray Firth coastlands and was sought after by the distillers , provided another cereal where the land could support it . Rotation of these crops , as ...
Page 138
... improved stock husbandry was the improved quality of the animals being driven to the south ; but turnips and rotation grasses now made it possible to fatten as well as to breed in the Northeast . Although the fat cattle could be driven ...
... improved stock husbandry was the improved quality of the animals being driven to the south ; but turnips and rotation grasses now made it possible to fatten as well as to breed in the Northeast . Although the fat cattle could be driven ...
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... improved with arable land on terraces and permanent grass on the alluvial flats by the rivers . The Loch Ussie plateau , southeast of Strathpeffer , is a distinctive area of mainly forested or unimproved land , formed on a synclinal ...
... improved with arable land on terraces and permanent grass on the alluvial flats by the rivers . The Loch Ussie plateau , southeast of Strathpeffer , is a distinctive area of mainly forested or unimproved land , formed on a synclinal ...
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The Physical Environment | 4 |
Climate Soils and Vegetation | 37 |
The Prehistoric Phase | 58 |
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50 MILES Fig Aberdeen Aberdeenshire acres agricultural altitude areas Argyll Atholl Banffshire basin Ben Nevis boats boulder-clay Buchan built burghs Cairngorms Caithness Caledonian canal cattle centres climate coastal crofters crofts Cromarty crops deer forests Deeside deposits developed districts east eastern Edinburgh eighteenth century erosion estates farms feet Findhorn fishery fishing Forestry Fraserburgh glacial Glen granite grass grazing Highland Line Highlands and Islands hills hydro-electric important improved increased industry Inverness Isles Kintyre landscape Loch lowlands mainland Monadhliath Mountains Moray Firth mountains Nevis nineteenth century Norse North Sea northeast northern oats Old Red Sandstone Orkney Outer Hebrides parish peat Peterhead Plate plateau population produced railway rainfall raised beaches region relief ridges river road rocks sand Scotland Scottish settlement sheep Shetland Islands Skye slopes soils Source Spey stations stone Stornoway straths surface Sutherland timber townships trade upland valley vessels villages west coast western zone