Glassalt (Gael. 'grey stream'), a mountain torrent of Crathie and Braemar parish, SW Aberdeenshire, rising on the southern side of Lochnagar at an altitude of 3450 feet, and running 3 miles east-south-eastward, till it falls into Loch Muick (1310 feet) near its head, and 2¾ miles SW by S of Alt-na-Giuthasach. 'The falls,' writes the Queen under date 16 Sept. 1852, 'are equal to those of the Bruar at Blair, and are 150 feet in height ; the whole height to the foot of the loch being 500 feet. . . . We came down to the Shiel of the Glassalt, lately built, where there is a charming room for us, commanding a most lovely view.,-Ord. Sur., sh. 65, 1870.
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