478 OF THE COAST 1 ROM CAPF. WRATH. 



cliffs, and cafcadcs; the leaves, therefore of 



fcals fowls; the the Orkney 



Uhndson the north, and of the coaft of the Murray 

 on the Couth, bounded, at the diflanre of 5 to 

 10 miles from the Ce.i, by that mighty natural ram- 

 part die Grawj in mountains, which clofes the : 

 zon from caft to well. 



want of good roads and bridges proves an in- 



'juntablc impediment to the improvement oC the 

 country, pan in agriculture; keeps the na- 



tives at a diftance from each other, in a flate of na- 



, and the mod abjcdl p- 



proprietors of lands .it improvers of 



their refpe6Hve eflates, as far as their finances and the 



natural (late of the country will admit ; among whom 



'vofs efquire, of Cromarty, hath particularly 



.guifhed himfelf; but it cannot be fuppofed, 

 that the few gentlemen who poflefs thole heathy 

 mountains will involve themfelves, their families, and 

 poflerity in debts, by extending their expenditures 

 to the ir.ak; Is, building bridges, harbours, 



and otherobjccts of a public nature, which injnftice 

 ought to be done in time of peace by the military 

 itationed in thefe parts. 



As this country, from the caufes above mention- 

 ed, as well as its remote fituation, hath been lefs ex- 

 pofed to the ravages of Oliver Cromwell, and other 



Citing invaders, it contains many remains of an- 

 tiquity > the works of the Druids, Picls, Scots, Danes, 



the fatigue of his journey; in the grandeur of the profpedls on 

 every fide by land nnd fea^ \vhile immediately underneath, he per- 

 the leals floating on the \va. npanied by fea-fo\vl, 



which fwim among them with ^reat fccurity, and whole territorial 

 rcfidcnee is in the caverns, which nature hath formed for them on 

 the fides of the ord next the k.t. The reader will be 

 conceive fome idea of the extent of the dirtant . hen inform- 



ed that the defeent on the north fide is 4 miles, and probably the 

 perpendicular hti<;hr is above half a mile. 



diltance betwixt this cape and Fo; n on the Mur- 



h, is 45 mile vhcncr 



fccn the cape :t midnight, in the month of June, 



appearing like a dark cloud, overhanging th 



2 and 



