Morven, an indefinite region in the Highlands, figuring, or supposed to figure, in Ossian's poems. The name, which in Gaelic orthography is Mor-Bheinn, signifies simply the Great Mountain, ' and, as occurring in Ossian, it seems to designate either the Highlands generally or such portions of them as most abound in fastnesses or alpine heights.
Morven, a round-topped felspathic mountain (2862 feet) on the mutual border of Glenmuick and LogieColdstone parishes, SW Aberdeenshire, 5 ¼ miles N of Ballater. The Queen ascended it, with the Princess Alice, on 14 Sept. 1859; and ' the view, ' she writes, ' from it is more magnificent than can be described; so large and yet so near everything seemed, and such seas of mountains with blue lights, and the colour so wonderfully beautiful.'-Ord. Sur., sh. 75, 1876.
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