Don, a river of Aberdeenshire, rising close to the Banffshire boundary in a peat-moss 1980 feet above sea-level, and winding 82 miles eastward till it falls into the German Ocean, 1 mile NE. of Old Aberdeen, and not far below the 'Auld Brig o' Balgownie' (cirea 1320), commemorated in Byron's Don Juan. Its chief affluent is the Ury. The Don is a capital salmon river.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 53
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