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BLACK ROCK Black Rock (continued] [continued from page 99] several miles, gradually increasing in size, and when within three miles of the sea its banks on either side suddenly heighten and contracts, and the waters becoming invisible from the depth of the gulf, and the quantity of under wood growing on its sides, their presence is discovered by the hollow roaring within resembling at times the noise of continued thunder, The whole length of the chasm is about a mile and a half; and so near do the sides approach each other that the boys have been known to cross on branches of trees, growing from the sides and stretching across the centre. There is no convenient way of crossing the chasm except at one part, where a wooden bridge has been thrown across, But even here from the great depth and narrowness of the opening an observer though obtaining a view downwards can scarcely discern the water as it boils and hisses below, A stone of ordinary density dropped from the bridge strikes the surface of the water in 3 seconds giving a depth of about 140 feet,"

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Ph [Parish] Alness -- Ross-shire.

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