112 A HUNDKED YEARS IN THE HIGHLANDS 



he discovered that a ship pier erected on this, the only 

 spot where a net could be drawn at the river mouth, 

 would be a grand thing to upset the netting, so Brahan 

 Quarries were all busy and ships were loaded with 

 dressed freestone for the pier, and were instantly 

 discharged into the sea on the pier site. When the 

 lawyers had seen him well into the courts they suddenly 

 advised Seaforth to throw up the sponge, and the result 

 was that he offered to withdraw the seven lawsuits 

 and pay all the costs. These, of course, were no trifle, 

 but the fishing up of all those ship-loads of stone out 

 of the deep below at the river mouth (for every one 

 had to be removed) must have been a wild expense. 

 He also had to pay my father damages for the loss of 

 two seasons of fishing there, and the affair became 

 the standing joke of the county wherever the parties 

 were known." 



