. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. yimperfect state. It accommodates about 300 parochial schoolmasters salary is £34, withabout £15 of school-fees. The hill of Tinto, ashas been stated, forms the prominent feature in theparish. On the south-east side of it, the remains ofan ancient place of strength, named Fatlips-castle,are still seen. Several tumuli have been found inthe parish. In one of them, opened some years agoat the base of Tinto, were found the remains of ahuman body entire, with the exception of the head;and as the grave was unusually
. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. yimperfect state. It accommodates about 300 parochial schoolmasters salary is £34, withabout £15 of school-fees. The hill of Tinto, ashas been stated, forms the prominent feature in theparish. On the south-east side of it, the remains ofan ancient place of strength, named Fatlips-castle,are still seen. Several tumuli have been found inthe parish. In one of them, opened some years agoat the base of Tinto, were found the remains of ahuman body entire, with the exception of the head;and as the grave was unusually short, it has beenpresumed that the body was interred after decapita-tion. Urns have been found in others of the tumuli. hills to a point in the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, 7 mileswest from Edinburgh. The branch from Symington is con-sidered preferable to the other. The actual distance by thisline is 31 miles, 30 chainsj the equivalent distance 3S miles, 68chains. By Thaukerton, the actual distance is 37 miles, 41chains j equivalent distance 44 miles, 24 RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER THE VALLEY OF THE a Sketch by D M. Mackenzie. II. 3 A 738 TAIN. T TAIN, a parish on the northern border of Ross-shire ; bounded on the north by the Dornoch frith ;on the east by Tarbat and Fearn ; on the south byLogie-Easter; and on the west by Edderton. Itsgreatest length from east to west is between 9 and10 miles; its breadth at a peninsula which runs intothe frith at Meikle-ferry, is about A\ miles; and itsmean breadth elsewhere is about 3 miles. The coast,from end to end of the parish, has nearly the figureof a crescent, and encloses the bay of Tain. It is,in general, low and flat, nowhere rising to a greateraltitude than 15 feet; it is sandy, curved, and in-dented ; and, suffering constant erosion from the sea,it may be viewed as a broken sand bank. Along theskirt of its eastern half, a tract of sand, in someplaces from a mile to 2 miles broad, is alternately dryand covered wi
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