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EXAMINATION OFFICE.

Six Inch Sheet 21. Caithness - Cuil Loch -

Remarks on the Plans, &c.
We cannot reconcile
the position of the names
with the description given
by the Town Clerk of Thurso
"there is another loch
adjoining it, at the South
end, which in the Summer
Season is dry, or at
least nothing more than
a swamp, & which
the Natives sometimes
call Cùil Loch-More"
By our plan Cuil Loch
More is North of Cuil Loch
but the Town Clerk says
South.
Please arrange the
position of the names
on the trace attached -
[Signed] RM Parsons Cp RE [Captain Royal Engineers]
5-2-72 [5 February 1872]

Replies.
Captain Parsons
I have written the
names in parish as
Mr Brims writes them.
But I think that, though
he may be right as to
the spelling 'Cuil Loch' -
he must be wrong in the
remark quoted.
[Signed] FW Nixon Lt RE [Lieutenant Royal Engineers]

Cùil Loch is now
written to the great
Loch - "Cùil Loch
More" is rejected altogether
as being open to question -
it reads two ways -
And is only called so
sometimes by the
Natives - as the
T.C. [Town Clerk] says in
page 2 -

[Signed] A. McLachlan 8 - Feb 72 [February 1872]
Corresponding alteration is also
made in the name of the Stream
running South -