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Parish of Cromarty ------- Examiners replies to each of the underlined portions.

Extracts taken from the New Statistical Account dated 1841
The parish of Cromarty lies in the extreme eastern angle of the old
shire of that name, abutting on the south and west, on the parishes of
Rosemarkie and Resolis; and on the north and east, on the
Cromarty and Moray Friths. On the east, it presents to the waves of ------- Cromarty Firth written
the Moray Frith and abrupt and lofty wall of precipices, to the height of ------- and described.
about 470 feet above the level of the sea, at a distance of little more than
500 yards from the shore. On the north and west it sweeps gently towards
the Frith of Cromarty; but sinks abruptly over the beach into a steep
continuous bank. Viewed from the north, the parish presents a bold high
outline, - rising towards the east; where it marks the junction of the Crom- ------- Shewn
arty and Moray Friths, like a huge leviathan out of the sea, and
descending towards the west into a long rectilinear ridge
Bays, Springs, Cascades. - The bay of Cromarty was deemed one of the ------- For Cromarty Bay vide
finest in the world, and is sufficiently capacious to shelter the whole ------- Name Book.
British Navy. Most of the springs of the parish are of a petrifying
quality. The water of nearly all the draw-wells deposit inside ------- no information can be
our tea Kettles, a crust of lime fully a quarter of an inch thick ------- gained regarding that well
There are no rivers in the parish, and the streams are mere runnels;
but the burn of Ethie which form its cascades, and the beauty of its ------- Written Craighouse Burn
scenery, is highly deserving of notice. It forms the extreme boundary of
the parish towards the south, and runs for the last two miles of its course
through a narrow precipitous gulf of great depth, which seems to
have been scooped, by some frightful convulsion, out of an immense
bed of sandstone which is about 250 feet above the level of the sea
There are two other cascades, scarcely inferior in beauty, in the Upper
part of the dell. On withdrawing the Kind of augre used for the
purpose of boring for coal, but the attempt was unsuccessful, a bolt
of water, which occupied the whole diameter of the bore, came rushing
after like the jet of a fountain, and the work was prosecuted no
farther. The spring, a fine Chalybeate, still continues to flow between
its double row of cresses to the sea. A little dome of hewn stone has
been raised over it, and it is still Known to the towns people as
"The well of the Coalheugh", a name commemorative of its Origin ------- Vide Name Book for Coalheugh Well.
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