Excerpt from The History of the Province of Moray, Vol. 2 of 3: Comprising the Counties of Elgin and Nairn, the Greater Part of the County of Inverness, and a Portion of the County of Banff, All Called the Province of Moray Before There Was a Division Into Counties The Elgin Pillar was discovered in 1823 when the streets were under repair, lying about two feet below the surface in a horizontal position, as if it had been thrown down there by accident, a little to the north-east of the old Church of St. Giles. Nothing whatever is known of its previous history. It is now preserved in the Cathedral. This pillar is evidently incomplete, a part having been broken off from one end of it. It is now 6 feet in length, 25 in breadth, and 1 foot thick, composed of a reddish grey granite, very like that of Aberdeen shire. The base of this stone is of less breadth than the top. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.