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Glenfinnan

a Highland glen in Inverness-shire, Scotland; 18 miles W. of Fort William. Here, on Aug. 19, 1745, the clans gathered under Prince Charles Edward's banner, and here in 1815 was erected to his memory a tower bearing an inscription in Gaelic, Latin, and English.

GLENLIVET (-le'vet), the valley of Livet Water in Banffshire, Scotland. The Livet runs 14 miles N. W. till, at a point 5 miles S. of Ballindalloch station, it falls after a total descent of 1,600 feet into the Avan, itself an affluent of the Spey. In the battle of Glenlivet or Alltacoileachan, Oct. 4, 1594, 10,000 Protestants under the Earl of Argyll were GLENROY routed by the Catholic insurgents under' the Earl of Huntly. an

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