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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| THURSO [parish] | [Continued from page 1] boundary. The coast in general is rocky, but round the head of Thurso Bay, in the vicinity of the town, has a fine hard sandy beach. The soil of the parish is principally clay and loam lying on rock The arable and untilled lands bear the proportion to each other of 6 to 5" *** (since the foregoing was written a large area of untilled land has been cultivated so that the proportion is changed) *** Wood covers a less area than 50 Acres. Old red sandstone (Caithness flags) which is the principal rock, is extensively quarried both for building and exportation as pavement-flag." Vide Fullarton's Gazetteer |
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