3-034-625 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

On the Findhorn, 1871. Angling in Scotland. View of '...that part of the Findhorn which distinguishes the river, as furnishing by far the most exquisite scenery of Morayshire, and which some people, especially Morayshire people, proclaim to be unequalled in Scotland. The scene which our Artist has sketched is a fair sample of the general character - precipitous, well wooded, abounding in splendid pools and rapids, and, what our Engraving does not show, commanding from the heights above the rocks a magnificent view of the champaign country beyond, with the blue sea of the Moray Firth, and outlying it, tier above tier, the hills of Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness. There are ten or twelve miles of this romantic river scenery, all different and all highly picturesque. The best of it may be said to begin at Randolph's Leap, or the Brig of Rannoch, as it is variously called. The rocks that overhang the river at this point are not more than 8 ft. apart, but the depth of water is immense and the rush terrific'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.