Moness Burn, a stream of detached portions of Dull and Fortingall parishes, Perthshire, rising at an altitude of 1970 feet, and running 5½ miles north-by-eastward, till, after a total descent of nearly 1600 feet, it falls into the Tay at a point 3 furlongs N by W of Aberfeldy. It traverses, in the lower part of its course, a deep, narrow, wooded ravine; and makes there two romantic waterfalls, which are celebrated in Burns's Birks o' Aberfeldy; whilst Pennant characterised them as 'an epitome of everything that can be admired in waterfalls.' The upper cascade occurs 1½ mile above Aberfeldy, and consists of a sheer leap of 50 feet; the second, a short way lower down, consists of a series of leaps to the aggregate of at least 100 feet; and the third, at the influx of a tributary, is more picturesque than either of the others, and consists of brilliant rushing cateracts. A rustic bridge crosses the ravine; traces of a Roman redoubt are in its mouth; and Moness House adjoins it in the vicinity of Aberfeldy.—Ord. Sur., sh. 55, 1869.
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