Buchan

Buchan, the north-east district of Aberdeenshire (q.v.), lying between the Ythan and the Deveron. It rises in Mormond Hill to 769 feet; portions of the coast are bold and precipitous, and 6 miles south of Peterhead are the famous Bullers of Buchan, a huge vertical well in the granite margin of the sea, 50 feet in diameter and 100 feet deep, into whose bottom the sea rushes by a natural archway. Buchan contains the towns of Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Macduff, and Turriff, besides the remains of the Abbey of Deer, and of several castles of the Comyns, who held the earldom of Buchan, but forfeited their title and property in 1309. See Pratt's History of Buchan (Aberdeen, 1859). Buchan Ness is the easternmost promontory of Scotland, 3 miles S. of Peterhead.