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In Scotland and northern England a Linn is a geographical water feature. In Scotland it describes where a watercourse has cut through a shelf of hard rock creating a narrow (usually), steep-sided cut though which the watercourse runs. Typically there is only one named Linn on any watercourse - although obviously - there may actually be more than one feature with the necessary attributes. The photograph of the Linn of Dee illustrates the attributes of a typical 'Linn'. In ''Gordon (1925)'' the author describing a walk down ''Glen Avon'' in the Cairngorms mentions two ''Linns'' on the ''River Avon'' - first: Second: A linn may also refer to a waterfall or a pool at the foot of a waterfall,〔(Free Dictionary.com - Linn )〕 with the derivation a confusion of Scots Gaelic ''linne'' (pool) and Old English ''hlynn'' (torrent).〔 ==Sources== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linn (geology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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