Stormont

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Stormont, a district of Perthshire, bounded on the E by the Ericht, on the S by the Isla and the Tay, on the W by the Tay, and on the N by the frontier mountain-rampart of the Highlands, from the foot of Strathardle to a little distance S of the foot of Strath-Tummel. The district measures 14 miles in length from E to W, and about 7 or 8 in mean breadth. It comprehends the greater part of the parishes of Blairgowrie, Kinloch, Clunie, Caputh, and Dunkeld, all Lethendy, and about a third of Bendochy. For an exquisite combination of land, wood, and water, lowland expanses and Highland barriers, romantic glens and picturesque lochlets, this district, though excelled in its turn for other combinations, or for a higher perfection of some of the scenic elements, excels every other in even panoramic Perthshire. The best view of its brilliant surface and its numerous pretty lakes is obtained from the summit of Benachally, a considerable height on the mutual border of Caputh and Clunie ; and a charming, though a less extensive and commanding, one, is obtained from the summit of Crag-Roman, a wooded eminence about 1 mile W of Blairgowrie. Stormont gave, in 1621, the title of Viscount in the peerage of Scotland to the ancestor of the Earl of Mansfield. See Scone.

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