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angles with the former cutting; they are picked over their surface, and smoothed by atool in shape of a small hatchet, with much labour, and at a cost of 6d. per superficialfoot.
Frazerburgh harbour lies at the foot of Mount Kennaird, and is 50 miles from Burgh-head. The jetty has three bends; the first is in length 272 feet, the second 440 feet, andthe end, which returns at nearly right angles, 100 feet.
The thickness of the pier at top is 33 feet 7 inches without the parapet wall, which is 4feet 6 inches in addition; towards the sea the height is 20 feet 6 inches above low water,and batters considerably $ towards the harbour the face is curved.
This harbour, lately so much improved, is now one of the best on the eastern coast.
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Burghhead , in the county of Moray, has a small harbour well sheltered by a rockypromontory from the north. The trustees, who have the management, expended upon this
BURGHHEAD.
rectangular dock 6000/., and the commissioners 2000/. ; but the whole is dry at ebbtide.
Findhom is another port on the coast, the bay of which contains upwards of 1000 acresof stiff clay, which is only covered by the flux of the tide, as a bar of sand crosses themouth of the river, and prevents all violence of the surge; this sand is constantly moving,and the present harbour is at least ^ of a mile farther down the firth than it was 150 yearsago.