THURSO BAV. 



CHAPTEE IV. 



CAITHNESS. 



THE name of Caithness is derived from the old Norse. 

 It indicates the ness, naze, or nose of Cattey.* Many 

 of the headlands are also denominated ness, from Brim's 

 Ness to the west of Thurso, to Noss Head north of Wick. 

 Indeed, the same word is applied to headlands along the 

 east coast of Scotland and England from Tarbat Ness 

 in Eoss to Dungeness in Kent. The same word is 

 applied to the Naze in Norway and in Essex, and to 



* Caithness, supposed to be the peninsula of the Catti, a tribe cele- 

 brated by Tacitus in his account of the Low German tribes. TACITUS, 

 C. xxx. Germania,oT perhaps from the Ugnan (Lapp) " Ketje "an 

 end or extremity./. Taylor. 



