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very reminiscent of Bettyhill. The Inn
is well managed, unpretentious, and
comfortable. There are very many lochs
to fish in from it and the sport seems
good. There were still a few fishers staying
at it.
28th Sept. [September]. Hired the motor and set out
at 9.30 for Armadale. The road
winds through the most desolate of
moorlands, its surface broken by constant
peat hags. Round the crofts for the
first time we saw fences (?) of Caithness
flags. The journey was enlivened by
the dangerous hills and and turns of
the road and the reckless-ness of the
chauffeur. The fact that the M.P. [Member of Parliament]
was lying with broken bones in Strathy
Inn the result of a motor accident did
not reassure us.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey]

On the W. [West] bank of the Armadale burn
about 1 1/2 from the sea, perched on the
top of a cliff 100' above the burn and rising
steeply from the moorland behind are the
ruins of a broch. On the exterior, except
beside the entrance where the wall is some
3' high little beyond the foundations are

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