47 2 OF THE COAST FROM CAPE WRATH 



and find good anchorage in the fouth-caft part of the 

 bay*. 



Above the ifland Chorie, there is good ancho- 

 fc rage for any number of (hips on i 'horn 



" water. It is proper in cafe of flans of wind b: 

 " ing down from the mountains, to lie at fume dif- 

 f tance from the iQand, Ib as to be able to clear it. 

 " When (hips have advanced ib far as to be off two 

 " rivulets that run down from a hill on the well fide 

 ( of the loch, that is the proper place to drop an- 

 " chor. In the fouih fide of Rifpan bay, at th< 

 " trance of the loch, a few (hips may lie fafcly." 



This fine bay lies in that part of Sutherland called 

 Strathnavcr, a county deftitute of every necefla- 

 ry for navigation, or the fifheries. Its fituation near 

 Cape Wrath, renders it ftill more worthy of public 

 confideration, as a place where the unfortunate and 

 diftrefied mariners might be fupplied with (lores, pro- 

 vifions, or materials for enabling them to complete 

 their voyages. 



Proceeding eaftward, we come to Loch Tongue, 

 where, " between the two Rabbit iflands, fhips may 

 " anchor in 4, 5, or 6 fathom water, land-locked 

 " by Ifland Roan: at about a cable's length fouth of 

 <c this there is a bank of fand. On the fouth-eaft 

 " fide of Ifland Comb, there is a fmall creek, where 

 " a few (hips may lie fafely in 8 or 9 fathoms water. 

 " Behind Torrifdale head, on the weft end of the 

 " land, (hips enter with the flood, and lie fafely." f 



Scrabfter 



Mr. Mackenzie did not furvey this and the caftern coaft; the 

 nautical defcriptions of the former, marked with inverted commas, 

 are copied from a chart of this coaft, drawn at the defire of the 

 philoiophical iociety at Edinburgh, 



-r Near the fhore, on the leveled part of the firth, there 

 formerly was a fca-port town, the public mart of Srrr.thnaver. 

 The firth, indeed, \\irh the illands, forms a charming harbour. 

 It had almoft ccafed to be remembered, that there ever was a town 

 there But on the zyth of July 1751* a very heavy cloud of 

 rain fell on the adjacent mountains : the (bowers were peculiarly 

 violent, and their force impetuous. Thcfc congregated waters 



ruining 



