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29 May 1909 Tongue Hotel. Being very
tired I have employed myself all morning
writing up notes, signing letters to Town
Clerks of Royal Burghs &c. After luncheon
Jocelyn & I walked to a loch about a mile
off and fished for an hour or two but it
was stormy & cold & we only got one trout
each. This hotel is most comfortable and
we are very well boarded at 9/- £0.9.0] a day each.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 2.

30 May 1909. Another stormy day. Walked
down by Tongue Ferry in the morning
In the afternoon called on Colonel Morrison
the Duke’s factor at Tongue House. This
is a quaint old Scotch mansion built
towards the end of the 17th cent. [century]. It is a
long low building of one storey with windows
half set in the roof. Built into the wall of
the dining room are three decorated
pediments which probably surmounted
the windows at one time before the roof
was probably altered & the buttresses added.
One pediment over the mantelpiece
bears the Mackay arms (see Illus. [Illustrated] in Sutherland
& Reay Country &c. p. [page] 61) between the letters
D.M.R. A second bears the initials AMR
and the third the two sets of initials in

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