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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUNNET HEAD | Dunnet Head | Revd [Reverend] Mr Jolly - Minister Dunnet Mr R Campbell, schoolmaster Dunnet |
001 | Calder in his History of Caithness says: "Dunnet Head, The Cape Oreas of Diodorus Siculus, (a geographer who lived in the time of Julius Ceasar 53 Years B.C.) forms a peninsula containing about 3000 acres of uncultivated moor, with no fewer than 10 small lochs, or tarns, and is protected by a huge wall of precipices, averaging two hundred feet in height. This immense rampart of "Nature's Masonry" with its numerous wild "goes" and caves, runs along the northern side of the Bay of Dunnet, and then following the direction of the Pentland firth, bends towards what is called Easter Head on which the light house is errected The entire extent of rock encompassing the neck of land from Dwariack round to the Village of Brough, is nearly eight miles. |
| EASTER HEAD | Easter Head | Revd [Reverend] Mr Jolly - Minister Dunnet Mr R Campbell, schoolmaster Dunnet | 001 | Easter Head, which is the highest point of the whole, and the most northerly on the Mainland of Scotland, being situated in latitude 58° 40' N. [North]; and longitude 3° 21'W [West] - is fully 300 feet above the level of the sea - from the summit of the contiguous eminence of which it forms a part - the height above the sea is more than 500 feet. On Easter head the scene is horribly grand: and in looking down from the verge of the promontory on the toiling ocean beneath (over) [Continued on page 6] |
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