. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . PLAN & SECTION OF GRAVES AT THE CROMARTIE MONUMENT LEAD COFFIN OF GEORGE FIRST EARL OF CROMARTIE AT HIS MONUMENT IN DINGWALL 1714.] HIS BURIAL-PLACE AT DINGWALL. clxxv his interment at Dingwall, doubts arose as to the real last resting-place ofhis Lordship. These doubts were completely cleared up in the month ofAugust 1875 when excavations were made in the enclosed ground atDingwall. Many traditions were current in Dingwall in reference
. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . PLAN & SECTION OF GRAVES AT THE CROMARTIE MONUMENT LEAD COFFIN OF GEORGE FIRST EARL OF CROMARTIE AT HIS MONUMENT IN DINGWALL 1714.] HIS BURIAL-PLACE AT DINGWALL. clxxv his interment at Dingwall, doubts arose as to the real last resting-place ofhis Lordship. These doubts were completely cleared up in the month ofAugust 1875 when excavations were made in the enclosed ground atDingwall. Many traditions were current in Dingwall in reference to thispyramid. The oldest inhabitants believed that Lord Cromartie was buriedin a vault on the west side of the pyramid, and pointed out the exact spot,as they thought, where he lay. They described the vault, the actualnumber of steps which led to it, and the iron gate by which it was gate does not now exist. Its removal was accounted for by an incidentvery generally repeated, that a poor boy having fixed his head in the bars ofthe gate, a blacksmith had to be sent for from Inverness to extricate him—no Dingwall tradesman having been equal to the task. These traditions were so very prec
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