Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Don

Don.-- river, S. Aberdeenshire; rises near the Banffshire border, and flows E. to the sea 1 mile NE. of Old Aberdeen, and 21/2 miles N. of mouth of Dee; is 82 miles long, and is one of the best fishing streams in Scotland.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Aberdeenshire County
Place: Don

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