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Extracts from the New Statistical Account. ------- Examiners replies to each
Parish of Tongue ------- of the underlined portions

Name - This District, previous to its erections into a separate ------- Captain Coddington R.E. [Royal Engineers]
parish in 1724 and while it constituted but a portion of the
original parish of Durness, was called Kintail, - a term ------- Sir,
signifying "the head of the sea", (Cean an t' sàil). The name
was derived from the arm of the sea, which for many miles, stretches
inland into the parish from the Northern Ocean. The modern name ------- Written & described as North Sea.
(Tongue,) which at first was written ( Tung,) is in all probability
derived from a narrow neck of land jutting out transversely for
a considerable distance into the Kyle near the House of Tongue, ------- Answered Elsewhere
which bears a resemblance to a protruded Tongue.
Boundaries Extent.___ It would seem by this record of erection,
that the boundaries of this parish extended from Torrisdale in the
east, to the Water of Polla in the west: from the Whiten-head in the------- "Ceann Na Geala" Vide Name Sheets - Mòr [Initialled] WP
north, to the great deer forest in the south. By use and wont, however,
these boundaries are greatly contracted on the West, in which direction
the parish is considered now only to extend to the top of the Moin
or the Ben hope mountain range. ------- Not in my Work [Initialled] William J. Murray
Topographical Appearances. ___ The general aspect of the parish
is mountainous. In topographical character, however, it is divided
into two districts, distinct form each other. The first embraces all that
is peculiarly alpine, and is the principal part of the parish as to
extent, population, culture, and beauty. It lies towards the West, and
consists of the great Valley of Tongue, formed by the arm of the sea ------- Not Known by this Name
already mentioned, with the streams which flow from the interior
into the head of it. On either side of the bay, two mountain ranges,
rising abruptly and boldly from the ocean, stretch along its whole
length, and continue taking nearly a parallel direction, till inter-
upted by a third range, stretching from east to West, which
consists of the mountain of Ben Laoghal and its arms. The ------- Vide Name Sheet
whole constitutes a semicircular chain of hills apparently continuous
and gives to the valley the form of a spacious amphitheatre. The
Western range, commencing with Ben Hutig, which is 1345 feet
high, is for some miles of nearly a uniform height, and somewhat
monotonous, till it reaches its southern extremity, when it
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