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:marked stone was at the Manse when Mr.
Bentinck came to it two years ago. Though
the glass was falling rapidly we set out on
our bicycles for Carn Leath near Torboll. The
road there is very beautiful, and near Torboll
there are quantities of yellow iris flowering by
the road side. The scenery by the banks
of the Carnachy is lovely. The stream
dashes down in cascades of brown water
over a rocky bed, overhung with
birches and alders while above tower the
hills chequered with fresh green patches
of bracken among the darker masses
of heather. The Minister told me that
in Dornoch lives a woman who has the
gift of stopping bleeding at any distance
from her 'patient' and she is reputed to
have saved the life of a man who was
bleeding to death from mutilation by a
reaping machine. The power is not
hereditary in her case but can be handed
on by her to a male who must in turn
transmit it to a female. He also told
me the tale of how Betsy Splunky came
to haunt the Camore Wood which
few natives will pass after dark. Betsy

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