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7th July 1910.
A dull windy day. At 10.0 the motor
from Wick arrived with John Nicholson on
board to take me to Tullochans. Over Spittal
Hill to Westerdale the road was familiar beyond
that it wound along the left bank of the Thurso
River over desolate looking moors to Strath More
Lodge a fantastic looking building with
meaningless turrets projecting from its angles.

Old graveyard. Strathmore.
About 1/4 m. [mile] to the E. [East] of Strathmore Lodge
is an old enclosed graveyard. Near the
centre of it and at the W. [West] end of a large
table stone is lying an irregularly shaped
block of freestone measuring 2'.1" in length,
1'.1" in breadth and 7" in thickness. Along
the mesial line 9" from either end and
4" apart are two small circles 1" in diameter
the central disc of one of which is removed. In the
centre of the other a small hole seems to
have been made by the point of a compass
2 1/2" distant from the latter a small Latin cross
1 1/2" long by 1/2" across the arms has been
cut with a knife. I much doubt if
these marks are of any antiquarian interest.
but their existence on one stone is singular.
At Loch More, a dismal sheet of water,
we left the motor. Of Cheyne's castle

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