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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 

 Sutherlandshire. 



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 of 



