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

Hydrography. __ The parish abounds with springs, which are
generally perennial, but sometimes intermittent. Chalybeate ------- I could not obtain [names]
springs are quite common. Sulphureous ones are found in ------- for any of the Springs [?]
several places, chiefly around Ben Laoghal, and there some ------- in this Parish.
which seem to be a compound of both. The lochs most deserving
of notice are the following:___ Loch Maedie, in the southern extremity ------- Vide Name Sheets
of the parish which may be about 6 miles in circumference. Its ap[earance] ------- Loch Meadie the correct spelling
is striking, from its margin being singularly indented by numerous
little bays and projecting points of land, and from its bosom being ------- Any Bays having names
Studded with islands, on which grow trees of considerable size. ------- have been written and described.
Loch Diru lies at the foot of Diru rock, which is part of the West ------- Loch Dithreibh & Creagan
arm of Ben Laoghal. The loch is 2 miles long, and the rock, which ------- Dithreibh Written &c.
is nearly the same length, towers majestically above it to the
height of 200 feet. This loch is one of the unobserved beauties of the
parish, lying in a secluded spot, and inaccessible to any but the
pedestrian. On the east and south east sides of Ben Laoghal
there is a chain of lochs of considerable extent, called Lochs Cullisaid, ------- Not in my work [Initialled]
Laoghal, Craggy, and Slain which communicate with each ------- Loch Laoghal, Creagach
other by narrow fords or small rivulets. Loch Laoghal is the longest ------- & Slain Written & Described
of the four,and, indeed, the largest in the parish, being 5 miles long and
upwards of a mile broad. There are two islands upon it, where wild
fowls nestle in great numbers; on the east side there rises a hill
of considerable height, green to the top, with a thriving birch wood
at its base. Loch Craggy is interesting is interesting, by commanding a fine
profile view of Ben Laoghal. The rivers are the Borgie (called River Borgie. Written
and described in the former Account The Torrisdale) rises from Loch Slain, and,
after separating this parish from that of Farr during the greater
part of its course, falls into the sea on the west side of the Bay ------- "Amhainn Ceann Loch
of Torrisdale. The Rhians and the Kinloch, neither of them more ------- and Allt an Rian.
than two miles in length, falls into the head of the Kyle of Tongue ------- Vide Name Sheets
the former on the east side of Castle Varrich, the latter on its West.
A stripe of mica slate is found at the shore, on the west side of the
bay stretching from a point opposite the village of Tongue to a place
called Portvasgo, near the Rabbit Islands. The mountain range, ------- Vide name sheets
stretching along the east side of the Kyle from Coldbacky to ------- Cuilabhacaidh written and described
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