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Parish of Dornoch Co. [County] of Sutherland ------- Examiners Replies to each of the underlined portions

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got over a bar, which runs across the entrance. At high water mark,
vessels of 500 tons burthen may enter here. At the shore of Dornoch, too,
small vessels lie in safety, with tolerable weather, as well as near the Meikle
Ferry; but a formidable bar stretches from the eastern point of the coast of
Dornoch, almost quite over to the south side of the frith, called (from their
incessant noise) the Gizzing Briggs.
The river of Evelicks, which falls into the sea near the Meikle Ferry, affords ------- River Evelix written
a few salmon and trouts. The hilly part of the parish contains 3 or 4 small ------- and described
lakes; the largest of these lakes may be about one mile long and 1/4 broad.
At Embo there is a quarry of freestone. At both the Skibos there are ------- Vide name Book
thriving plantations of fir At Evelicks, some appearance of Coal have ------- and Traces
been observed.
The popular language is the Gaelic; from which also almost all the
names of the places are manifestly derived. In that language baille
signifies a town. Hence Tor-baille, Kerr-baille, Eun-baille,
Skia-baille, compounded of that word and others, signifies Mount,
rock, fowl, wing; answering to the figure, situation, or other circumstances
of places respectively. Some places in the vicinity of the cathedral,
are denominated from the offices of those who formerly held them as ------- Auchintannteres now
Croit 'n 'Espig, Auchintreansurich, Auchintaunter, i.e. the ------- spelled Achinchanter
bishop's, treasurer's and charter's fields. One place, now modernized
into Cydershall, was anciently, and still is in the Gaelic, called ------- Vide name Book &
Shierra ------- Trace
The following is taken from Fullarton's Gazetteer
Dornoch, a parish in the County of Sutherland. It is bounded on
the north by Rogart, and by the Loch of Fleet, which separates it from ------- Vide name Book &
Golspie; on the south east and south by the Dornoch Firth; and on the
west by Criech. The district of Kainauld and Rhimusaig is isolated
from the rest of the parish by the Fleet, and surrounded by the parishes
of Golspie and Rogart.
The small river Evlix or Evelicks, which rises in Strath Achvaich, ------- Vide name Book &
falls into the frith near the Meikle Ferry, after a course of 9 miles ------- Trace. for Strath [Ac---]
Upon an eminence not far from the Little Ferry, is the old Castle of Skibo: ------- Meikle Ferry. Little Fer[ry]
There are two villages in the parish the fishing village of Embo, and the ------- SKibo Castle. Embo and
inland village of Clashmore ------- Clashmore.
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