Tour Scotland short 4K late Autumn travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking in icy Glen Tilt on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Both King James V, in 1532 for a lavish banquet, and Mary, Queen of Scots in in 1564 visited the glen. Queen Victoria passed through Glen Tilt several times in the mid 1800s, including an expedition in 1861 where she crossed the Tarf Water on a pony. In 1785, the pioneering geologist James Hutton visited the glen and found granite veins intruding into older metamorphic schists. This observation provided key evidence that granite formed from cooling molten rock or magma rather than precipitating out of water, which was the prevailing theory at the time. In 1847, the 6th Duke of Atholl, the landowner, confronted Professor of Botany John Hutton Balfour and a party of Edinburgh University students who were conducting fieldwork in the glen. The Duke attempted to deny them access, claiming the track was a private drive, despite its long history as a traditional drovers' route. The case eventually went to the House of Lords and was settled in Balfour's favour, determining that a well established right of way ran through the glen. This legal victory was a landmark moment for public access rights in Scotland. Autumn leaf color or colour is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the Autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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