OS1/7/7/19
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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DROPPING BRAE | Dropping Brae | John Cairneross Thurso Alexander Houston, Castleton William Murray - Murkle |
006 | A small cliff between 20 and 30 feet in height and Extending about 6 chains - Water strongly impregnated with carbonate of lime oozes out of the cliff and has formed a calcerous surface on it which is continually dropping water on the sand and shingo at the foot of the cliff. and has hardened into conglomerate masses. like stalagmite. |
BLACK CLETT | Black Clett | John Cairneross Thurso Alexander Houston, Castleton William Murray - Murkle |
006 | A small rock on the foreshore 5 chains north East of the Dropping Brae. I is a prominent feature at half tide but is entirely covered at High Water. |
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[Page] 19Parish of Olrig -- County of Caithness
[Signed] G. Hobson. C.A. [Civilian Assistant]
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