Findhorn

Findhorn, a beautiful Scottish river, rising among the Monadhliath Mountains at an altitude of 2800 feet, and running 62 miles north-eastward through the counties of Inverness, Nairn, and Elgin, and past the town of Forres, till it enters the Moray Firth at Findhorn village by a triangular lagoon, 2 miles long by 2½ wide. Its waters abound in salmon and trout. Its basin consists of gneiss in the upper part, and of old red sandstone in the lower. At one place it rose nearly 50 feet in the disastrous floods of August 1829, known as the 'Moray Floods.'