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Aberdeen (Chief city and seaport)

the chief city and seaport in the N. of Scotland, lies in the the general kept the field during the day, miles N. of Edinburgh. William the Lion confirmed its privileges in 1179; the English burned it in 1336, but it was soon rebuilt, and called New Aberdeen.

Old Aberdeen, within the same parlia and on the N. side of the river Dee, 111 miles N. of Edinburgh. William the Lion aile to the N., near the mouth of the confirmed its privileges in 1179; the Cathedral (1357-1527), now represented S. E. angle of the county the mouth It is on