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" Scrabflcr road is a very good harbour, where 

 " (hips of any burden may ride out any dorm, upon 



1 ichoring ground 



ind bcii : the better ig of 



" (hips, r two iron rings tixcd to the rocks on 



" thcihorc." i two rings are the only aid to 



.ng between Ireland and the Baltic. Here alfo 



Hands the an -wn of Tlmrfo, at the mouth of 



lough a place of 



>rts in grain, meal, i, herrings, and 



i, the \ n accommodated with a har- 



bour or key, except the two rings above ncd, 



> m> up with a fpring-tidc into the chan- 

 nel o? .ere they lie to for loading 



iding, along its banks. I s being the only 

 town upon the coaft of Scotland lincc we left Camp- 

 .it the diftancc of more than 300 miles, be- 

 ing alia at tl, >w iii ait be- 

 tween the continent and the Orkney illaiuU, lo fatal 

 to navigation, the utility of a key or harbour is ob- 



s place > have been the capital of the 



id, the e of the earls of C 



ncfs and Suiulerland, wiio, firft 



by a charter ti \\ II. 



in lojoj the ithor mentions a count of Thurib, 



in 1 136, when the place was confiderab. opu- 



lous. Thurfo wa Ic the rcfidcnce of the bilhops 



of Caithnefs. Its neighbourhood abounds in ruinous 

 s, rude obelifks, cairns, and other remains of 

 antiquity. The coall is fertile, the fca and i 



.ticularl :rlb, which flows 



from a fmall inland lake called Lpchmore, abound- 



ing 



rafhing in a thoufand torrents do ndembfed in the 



deep- worn channel of the dale, tod, foaming through 

 whole united r >c an executive bank of land to the lea. 



On its removal, the mint of the town were diicovcrtd ; whole 

 ranges of buildings appeared, which had lain from time 

 beneath the iano* 



