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Many lives are sacrificed in the pursuit of its great industry, one quarter of 

 the town being mainly inhabited by the widows of fishermen, and hence known 

 as Widows' E-ow. Swainshost is a fishing village on the north-western coast of 

 Lewis. 



Gaelic is still spoken throughout Ross, except in Black Isle, which was settled 

 in the days of James VI. by people from the south. 



Sutherland is the wildest and most desolate of all the Highland counties, 

 its only cultivable tract forming a narrow fringe along the coast of the North 

 Sea. Oolitic limestones occur here, almost the only place where they are 



Fig. 188, — Stornoway. 

 Soale 1 : 160,000. 



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5°20 



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Depth to 10 

 jb'atùoms. 



2 Miles. 



found in Scotland. The interior of the county is furrowed by deep glens filled 

 with lochs, above which Ben More of Assynt, Ben Klibrech (3,160 feet), and 

 other mountains rear their naked heads. Chief among these glens is that within 

 which lies Loch Shin, and which drains eastward through the Kyles of Suther- 

 land into the Dornoch Firth, Bonar, at the head of that loch, and Dornoch, 

 the county town, are mere fishing villages. Golspie, near which rises the magni- 

 ficent Dunrobin Castle; Brora, where coal is won and clay manufactured into 

 bricks ; and Helmsdale lie on the open North Sea, Portskerra, Tongue, Eddrachillis, 

 and Lochinver are small hamlets on the north and west coasts, which would escape 

 notice except in a country so thinly peopled. 



