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get a photo of the cairn near the Grudie
Burn. In passing we visited the falls
of Shin and saw numbers of fish
trying to leap up them. The river was
in flood and few succeeded.
In a storm of wind and rain I
toiled up the Sithean above Invershin
Station to look for another of Donald Mac:
:kenzie's standing stones. My experience
earlier in the day did not fill me with
high expectations and I was not disappointed!
I could find nothing but the storm was
so violent I did not waste much time
on the hill, among soaking heather, looking
around.
6th Oct. [October]. In the Maikle Wood to the N. [North] of
the W. [West] end of the cultivated land are
some half a dozen cairn-like mounds;
overgrown with vegetation, from 18' to 20'
in diameter, and the indefinite remains
of a hut circle through which a road
passes running E. and W. [East and West]. Small
cairns extend for some distance through
the wood towards the W. and N. [West and North].
Mr. Mackenzie took me to see the
Balblair keeper, who was responsible

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