This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...being guided over the river by a guy rope. The most memorable accident occurred in 1824, when a newly-married couple, Peter Frankie, gamekeeper at "The Hut," Alltnagiubhsaich, and Barbara Brown of Crathienaird, were drowned together; the "accident" was attributed by some to the malignancy of a disappointed suitor of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...being guided over the river by a guy rope. The most memorable accident occurred in 1824, when a newly-married couple, Peter Frankie, gamekeeper at "The Hut," Alltnagiubhsaich, and Barbara Brown of Crathienaird, were drowned together; the "accident" was attributed by some to the malignancy of a disappointed suitor of Babby's. A neat suspension foot-bridge has taken the place of the "cradle ." Between Crathie Burn and Bridge of Gairn the north side of the valley is dominated by a long hill, Geallaig "the white mountain," probably so named from the stones with which it is so plentifully covered. Its length would be monotonous were it not for occasional breaks in the outline, trees, especially birches, frequently bristling to the summit. A rather straggling hamlet, Micras, Western and Eastern, lies at the base of Geallaig, the inhabitants of which were at one time held in little estimation by their neighbours. Their houses were formerly of the very rudest description; now they have been replaced by buildings of a quite modern type, and one looks here in vain for an example of the Highland hut which, a generation past, photographers made so well known, There was, centuries ago, a Chapel in Micras, the site of which may be distinguished, as one walks along the road, from a standing-stone which served for the reading desk, and is believed to have been at one time part of a Druidical Circle. As we pass Micras, a frolicsome puppy darts from the wood and gives us a noisy, if not joyous, welcome. An old dame, faggotburdened, soon follows and hastens to assure us of Ossian's harmlessness. We are all immediately on the best of terms, especially the collie, who is particularly delighted as we address him in the few suitable Gaelic...
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