History of Nairnshire Book

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: "Telegraph" Office Subjects: Nairnshire (Scotland) Nairnshire County (Scotland) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. EAltLY HISTORY. The first glimpse we get in history of this district is in the First Century in connection with the Roman occupation of Great Britain. In the year 86 the Roman Fleet was despatched from the Firth of Forth by Agricola at the close of his last campaign against the Northern Picts in the peninsula between the Forth and Tay. The Fleet was. sent to explore the coast and circumnavigate the island with a view to future military operations. They skirted the coast, noting the headlands, promontories, firths, rivers, and towns. The results of these observations were communicated by the sailors on their return to Ptolemy, the geographer. Whilst the work of Richard of Cirencester on the Roman progress in the North has proved to be a forgery, Ptolemy's chart may be accepted as fairly reliable. There are three editions of the chart, and whilst they agree in the main outline of the coast, they unfortunately differ in some of the details. In what is known as the Strasburg edition, a river called the Loxa is placed at Nairn. In the Ulm edition it is placed at Lossiemouth, whilst the Wilberg edition places it at the Dornoch Firth -- the latter clearly a mistake. What appears certain is that the Roman Fleet on entering the Moray Firth skirted the south shore. They noted the river Deveron, to which they gave the name Celnius, and proceeding came to the Spey, which they named the Tuessis. Coming to the bold promontory 32 THE ROMAN FLEET IN THE MORAY FIRTH. of Burghead, they found a native sett...Read More