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Forres

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Forres

Town and former royal burgh in Moray unitary authority, Scotland, on the River Findhorn, 19 km/12 mi southwest of Elgin; population (2001) 9,000. A tower built in honour of Admiral Nelson in 1807 tops Cluny Hill. The nearby monolith of Sueno's Stone, carved in the 11th century, is the largest single stone monument in Scotland.



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She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
Allan of Forres, that he has frequently found a Diodon, floating alive and distended, in the stomach of the shark, and that on several occasions he has known it eat its way, not only through the coats of the stomach, but through the sides of the monster, which has thus been killed.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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