In 1791 the river, which bisects the town, was made navigable for vessels of 50 tons and further deepened a century later.
The Highland railway bisects it diagonally from Dunkeld to the borders of Inverness-shire.
The stage upon which we will fix our attention is that where the one procession bisects the intervals between the other, so that a new simple procession is constituted, containing the same number of members as before the insertion of the plate, but now spaced at intervals only half as great.
The designs of Mr Herbert Baker were accepted for two large blocks of identical design connected by a semicircular colonnade (passing behind the narrow kloof which bisects the shelf).
The island lies across the Highland Boundary Fault noticeable at Loch Fad that almost bisects the island.