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DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES 
lias been kept quiet by the lessee of the adjoining shootings and 
deer forest of Inverpolly, there is perhaps some chance again of 
their increasing. 
Besides Loch Sheanaskaig, there are many fine wild lochs in 
Coigeach or West Cromarty, famed for sporting purposes as well 
as varied and grand scenery. Among these we may mention 
Lochs Owskeich, Baddagyle, Lurgan, Eaa, etc., imbedded amongst 
their weird mountain valleys. Off the coast are the Summer 
Islands, partly belonging to the county of Eoss and partly to West 
Cromarty. Amongst these, the principal are Eistal and Mullach- 
grah Islands, Tannera More, Tannera Beg, and Clas-leag-mohr and 
Horse Island ; and lying farther seaward, and to the southward 
are the outlying islands of Glas-leag-beg, Priest Island, Dubh 
Island and Bottle Island, of which perhaps the most curious is 
Priest Island, which we visited in 1884, and of which we have 
already written a somewhat full account, being a paper on " Priest 
Island and its Bird Life," ^ and which perhaps ought more justly 
to be treated of when we come to consider the area of " West 
Eoss and Skye." 
Eeturning to the county march formed by the Kirkaig river, 
we find the attention attracted by the more continuous nature 
of the real backbone of hills ; commencing in the south with 
Braebag (2044), rising rapidly upwards into the scarred and fretted 
face and summits of the huge Ben More, and its still bigger 
brother Coinneveal (Coinnemheall), 3273 and 3234 respectively, 
the highest peaks in Sutherland ; then follow, in a bold, amphi- 
theatric curve, Ben Chaoran (2500), Ben Uidhe (2384), and 
Glashbhein (2541). 
Away to the north and north-west extends a perfect multitude 
of mountains, chief amongst which are those of the Eeay Forest, 
stretching from Ben Stack in the west (2364) and Ben Hee (2864) 
in tlie east, north-eastwards to Ben Hope (3040), and including the 
isolated Ben Laoghal in the Tongue district (2504). To the north- 
west, and towards Cape Wrath, are B'^n Arkle (2578), Foinnebhein 
(2980), Grann Stackach (2630), Ben Spionnaidh (2537), and 
1 Transactions of Norfolk and Norwich Society, April 1886. 
