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CHAPTER XL 



Agriculture in Sutherlandshire — Facilities of reaching the 

 County — Caledonian Canal — Travelling in Sutherland — 

 Inns, excellent management of — Lairg — Tongue — Durness 

 — Scowrie — Inchnadamph — Inveran — Conclusion of Suther- 

 landshire. 



I will now finish my sketches (hurried and im- 

 perfect as they are) of Sutherlandshire by recom- 

 mending my readers, who may wish for a week's 

 enjoyment, to follow my example and travel round 

 that county ; there are few who would not derive 

 much pleasure and amusement by doing so. The 

 agriculturist and improver of land would be in- 

 terested by seeing the different stages of husbandry 

 in the county, from the perfectly- cultivated farms 

 and cattle of the southern parts, to the rude and 

 primitive method of raising small crops of oats 

 amongst the rocks of the north and north-west, 

 where the ground is turned up by ancient and 

 quaintly-shaped substitutes for spades — ploughing 

 being quite impracticable in many places ; at the 

 same time that about Tongue, near as it is to the 

 extreme northern point of Britain, both the mode 



