Aultgrande or Altgraat, a rivulet of the E side of Ross-shire. It issues from Loch Glass; runs east-south-eastward, about 7 miles, along the boundary between Alness and Kiltearn parishes; passes through a profound, narrow, bosky chasm, seeming to have been formed by the stroke of an earthquake; makes, in its progress, a series of romantic cateracts and cascades; falls into the Cromarty Firth, about 1 mile NE of Kiltearn village; and, when swollen by heavy rains, is frequented by finnocks, sea-trout, and a few salmon.
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