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the weather was stormy, it could not be passed in safety. 

 Even in fair weather, the road was so difficult and dan- 

 gerous that, when the chaise of a landed proprietor had 

 to pass it, a force of fifteen or twenty persons was 

 employed to help on the carriage and horses. 



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Pennant, who travelled into many strange places, 

 described the pass as " infinitely more high and horrible 

 than Penmaenmaur in Wales ;" and another writer says, 

 " that if any stumble thereupon, they are in danger of 

 falling down a precipice into the sea at the bottom of 

 the rock, which is very terrible to behold." The old 

 path is still to be seen from Helmsdale. It is like a 



