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CARNOUSTIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARNOUSTIE  , a

police burgh and watering-place of
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Forfar-
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shire, Scotland . Pop . (1901) 5204 . It lies on the North Sea, Io4 m . E.N.E. of Dundee by the North
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British railway . Bathing and golfing are good . Barry Links, a triangular sandy track occupying the south-eastern corner of the shire, are used as a camping and manoeuvring ground for the artillery and
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infantry forces of the
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district, and occasionally of Scotland . Its most extreme point is called Buddon Ness, off which are the dangerous shoals locally known as the Roaring Lion, in consequence of the deep
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boom of the waves . On the Ness two lighthouses have been built at different levels, the lights of which are visible at 13 and 16 m .

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