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other historical celebrities, entered their names and 

 doings on the records of this goodly town. 



On Monday, September 21st, I set out with a good 

 deal of animation on the last week-stage of my journey, 

 which I was anxious to accomplish as soon as possible, 

 as the weather was becoming unsettled with frequent 

 rain. Beached Invergordon, passing through a most 

 interesting section of country, full of very fertile straths. 

 It was the part of Ross-shire lying on the Moray and 

 Beauly Firths and divided by rivers dashing down 

 through the wooded gorges of the mountains. I saw 

 here some of the most productive land in Scotland. 

 Hundreds of acres were studded with wheat and barley 

 stooks, and about an equal space was covered with 

 standing grain, though so near the month of October. 

 Plantations, parks, gentlemens' seats, glens deep and 

 grand, fir-clad mountains, villages, hamlets and scat- 

 tered cottages made up the features of every changing 

 view. Indeed, one travelling for a week between Perth 

 and Inverness comes upon such a region as this with 

 pleasant surprise, as upon an exotic section, imported 

 from another latitude. 



The next day I held on northward, though the 



weather was very unfavorable and the walking heavy 



and fatiguing. Passed what seemed the bold and ridgy 



island of Cromarty, so associated with the venerated 



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