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crofter’s daughter, a nice little girl of 12, who
afterwards conducted me to the river to get
to the broch at Inslampie on the other side.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 53.

Quite half a mile off was a shepherd’s cottage
where someone lived who could bring the boat
across to our side. I was told to whistle!
but though I rammed my fingers into my
mouth I could produce nothing to carry nearly
the requisite distance. My guide then suggested
that her brother working with the rest of the family
in a field near by should be got to whistle. He however
knew that the occupants of the cottage were in the
hills cutting peats so he waded the river & brought
the boat across. The broch stands on a
projecting bank 70’ to 80’ above the Naver & is
protected on either flank by a deep ravine
It is a complete ruin. Neither the entrance
nor any of the chambers are discernible. The
thickness of the wall is 13 ft. [feet] and the diameter
of the interior 29 ft. [feet]. On the E. [East] side the wall
is visible in the interior to a height of 4 ft. [feet]
Returning to the road where lay my bicycle
I crossed into a birch wood & throwing my
-self on a bank beside a rivulet eat my frugal
lunch – a slice of cold mutton & a little cheese.
The wood anemones were growing in great

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