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The speech "acquired a life of its own, independent of the play, and became widely known through public recitations, lessons in speech, school memorizations and the like" during the 18th and 19th centuries. The speech (and thus the reference to the
Grampian Hills) are casually referred to by Jane
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in the west almost to the sea just south of
Aberdeen. Many maps and books have given its name as 'the Grampians' but although children have to learn this at school, they do not learn it at home and nowhere is it used in local speech. Some map-makers have confused the issue by printing 'Grampians'
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There is some ambiguity about the extent of the range. Fenton Wyness, writing about
Deeside, puts the northern edge of the Grampians at the River Dee in the introduction to his 1968 book
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My name is Norval; on the
Grampian Hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store. And keep his only son, myself, at home.
388:. However Robert Gordon, writing in the 1650s, used the term Grampians to refer to hills on either side of the River Dee, and thus explicitly included the Cairngorms within the range.
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There is some ambiguity about the extent of the range, and until the nineteenth century, they were generally considered to be more than one range, which all formed part of the wider
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Both Wyness and Watson appear to exclude the
Cairngorms from the Grampians, regarding them as a separate range. In effect, Wyness' and Watson's definition of the Grampians is as a
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The following ranges of hills and mountains fall within the generally recognised definition of the
Grampians, i.e. lying between the Highland and Great Glen fault lines:
223:, literally 'Mount Graupius' (the element 'Graupius' is of unknown meaning), is a matter of dispute among historians, though most favour a location within the Grampian
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Stephenson, D, and Gould, D. 1995. British regional geology: the
Grampian Highlands. Fourth edition. Reprint 2007. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey.
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This introduction appears to suggest that Wyness defines the
Grampians as being the range of mountains running from immediately south of Aberdeen westward to
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738:. Edinburgh: The Scottish Mountaineering Trust. p. 19.
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554:Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Bernard Shaw.
255:believed to be from the mid-9th century. In the
43:Location of the Grampian Mountains within Scotland
391:Wyness and Watson both exclude areas west of the
370:over the Cairngorms and Strath Don hills as well!
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30:"Grampians" redirects here. For other uses, see
871:Mountains and hills of Highland (council area)
407:The Grampian Mountains are chiefly made up of
721:, Alex P. Reid & Son, Aberdeen, p. 1
750:Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers
134:. The area is generally sparsely populated.
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277:Grampians
267:Etymology
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273:Graupius
252:Germania
241:Graupius
229:Raedykes
79:and the
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483:Mamores
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413:igneous
403:Geology
382:synonym
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203:Tacitus
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