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indicated by his heel-marks still keep this great deed 

 fresh in the memories of the dwellers in and around 

 Ullapool. The old road alluded to in the " Statistical 

 Account of Scotland," published in 1845, by Black- 

 wood, passed through Braemore for about eleven 

 miles, and until its construction nearly a hundred 

 years ago no road, except a shepherd's track, 

 existed between the Cromarty Firth on the east coast 

 and Loch Broom on the west coast. In many parts 

 of this road the bends and angles were so sharp that 

 it seemed an impossibility for anything on wheels, as 

 we understand them, to be taken round such abrupt 

 curves, but in " Burt's Letters from the Highlands of 

 Scotland," in 1 754, there are drawings of carts in use 

 at that time, very small in size and with wheels not 

 more than a foot in diameter, which would obviously 

 be able to turn at any angle, however sharp. It was 

 not till about forty years ago that the excellent mail 

 coach road was made that now runs through Braemore 

 to Garve. The wild cat, the pine marten or sable, 

 as well as the pole cat, together with badgers and 



