. The earth and its inhabitants ... t), andother mountains rear their naked heads. Chief among these glens is that withinwhich lies Loch Shin, and which drains eastward through the Kyles of Suther-land into the Dornoch Firth, Bonar, at the head of that loch, and Dornoch,the county town, are mere fishing villages. Golspie, near which rises the magni-ficent Dunrobin Castle; Brora, where coal is won and clay manufactured intobricks ; and Helmsdale lie on the open North Sea, Portskerra, Tongue, Eddrachillis,and Lochinver are small hamlets on the north and west coasts, which would escapenotice exce
. The earth and its inhabitants ... t), andother mountains rear their naked heads. Chief among these glens is that withinwhich lies Loch Shin, and which drains eastward through the Kyles of Suther-land into the Dornoch Firth, Bonar, at the head of that loch, and Dornoch,the county town, are mere fishing villages. Golspie, near which rises the magni-ficent Dunrobin Castle; Brora, where coal is won and clay manufactured intobricks ; and Helmsdale lie on the open North Sea, Portskerra, Tongue, Eddrachillis,and Lochinver are small hamlets on the north and west coasts, which would escapenotice except in a country so thinly peopled. 370 THE BRITISH ISLES. Caitiixkss forms the nortli-oastoni extremity of Great Britain, and nearDuncansby Head stood John o Groats house, often proverbially alluded to. Verydifferent from the Hig-hland counties, it is an old red sandstone country of undu-lating surface, for the greater part capable of cultivation, though still largely Fig. 189.— an Admirnlty Chart. Scale 1 : 150, -ffead ^^ \
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