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tured on one side only, and lies face downwards on a grave. 
The ornamentation consists of key-patterns and spirals. Other 
three sculptured fragments which have been found there are 
now in the Edinburgh Museum of Antiquities. In connection 
with the bosses on some of these sculptured stones, and the 
cup-shaped markings on others, the thought occurred to me 
that these may be the same symbol reversed, though of course 
that would do nothing to explain their meaning. 
The next important thing to be noticed is Fortrose Cathedral. 
In ancient days Fortrose was the “chief seat of ecclesiastics 
and of literature in the north.” The bishopric of Ross was 
founded about 1124, and the cathedral was built about 
200 years later. It was originally of considerable extent, 
and consisted of choir and nave, with south aisles, eastern 
lady chapel, western tower, and chapter-house. There now 
only remain the aisles and chapter-house, but these are 
carefully preserved. The rest was torn down by Cromwell, 
and the materials used to assist in the building of his fort at 
Inverness. The style of architecture is described as “the 
purest and most elaborate middle-pointed,” and enough is left 
to show that it contained many beautiful features, such as the 
mouldings of the pillars, the groined roofs of the aisles, and 
the remains of the tracery in the top of the five-light east 
window. In two of the arches between the aisles and the 
body of the building there are the remains of some very fine 
canopied tombs, one of which at least has been built with the 
_ cathedral. 
About half-way down Chanonry Point, and just on the top 
of the “ Terrace,” there stands the broken shaft of a cross of 
grey sandstone. It is of a flattened hexagonal shape, about 
_ three feet high, and fifteen inches broad. About its own 
j history I pana learn nothing, but it is said that one of the 
last cases of witch-burning in Scotland took place beside it. 
While on the “ Point,” it may be noted that a fine golf course 
$ has been laid out on it, and as it runs so far out into the firth, 
forming a natural pier or promenade, it affords a grand oppor- 
; tunity for all in search of sea-air to get the full benefit thereof, 
without any discomfort or trouble. 
_ On the plateau about half-way between Rosemarkie and 
_ Cromarty there is an immense cairn of stones called the “ Glas 
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