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drove home. It was a cold day for fishing and
all day she only caught 6.
3d. June 1909. J. [Jocelyn] left by the 7. o'clock motor for
Laing & I wrote up notes &c. till I got away in the
hired motor at 10.0. It was a dull day cold morning
we stopped at Dun Maigh near Kinloch to let me
obtain a measurement I had omitted then on we
went along the W. [West] side of the Kyle and over
the Mhoine with the clouds hanging low as
they were, the dreariest tract of desolate heath
I have seen. In a dull day peat stacks & peat hags
full of black stagnant water give a note of
desolation to a landscape. At Hope Ferry
where now there is a bridge I saw a keeper and
enquired about the ruins of a 'teampull' once
said to exist here, but he knew nothing of them.
Durness O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 4s
About 1 m. [mile] W. [West] of Hope Ferry on the end of a
rocky ridge that terminates near the N. [North] end
of Loch Creagach are the remains of a broch.
A ruined cottage stands partially on the founda:
:tions and explains its dilapidation. It is
much ruined and very little walling remains
The interior diameter has been 26 ft. [feet] and the
and the thickness of the walls 11 ft. [feet]. The Entrance to the
N. [North] along the ridge. The guard chamber, visible
through the roofing slabs, in part displaced, still
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