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180 RAMBLES NORTHWARD.
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We Will Take At Random Some Fifty People...
ilieir lady friends may hear or "believe of the hardships to which their love of sport exposes them , are among the most comfortably
lodged and best fed of Her Majesty ' s subjects . A sportsman ' s inn . needs no other recommendationto the initiated : and if abundance
mutton of the finest equal salmon to venison in the , to worl say , d nothing , game of of the all excellence kinds , venison of tb e , farm and
and dairy produce which we have already eulogised to the best of our far poor remove ability d , good from ale the , good " hardshi whisky " , and with good which beds sportsmen , are not tolerabl delight y
to impress ladies , ( is it lest wives ps , daughters , and sisters , should propose to share in what they find so pleasant ?) why , our experience
of life , and of this life in particular , goes for nothing . Though some shooting lodges may be in remote and seemingly
un-get-atable all the situations comforts , there and many are ways of the and luxuries means of of life gathering , at whicli around our sport one
let ing no friends woman are hen adep ceforth ts , both believ in the e any acquisition man who and dilates the enj upon oyment the ; in so - ,
conveniences and hardships of a sportsman ' s life in Scotland , he has his reasons for it , but be sure they are not those he advances !
Revenons d vos 7 noutons ; and what mouton it was we got at the pleasant little inn at Stittenham , standing midway of as the it were wild between hill and
tation moorland the Cromart , smiling , yet y and itself a welcome Dornoch situated greeting Firths in a sheltered , to in the the tired midst nook and of garden hungry and traveller plan- .
On resuming our route we soon came in sight of the beautiful fection bays and from promontories this hih of mountain the Dornoch road Firth ; its , which long steep is seen decli to per vity
towards the , firth affo g rding a series of . panoramic views for miles along ordinary its coach shores , road lost , altogether via Tain , into to the whi traveller ch road we by again the lower the struck River and a
few miles short of Bonar Bridge , which , thrown across particular Shin , unites point the . counties At the excellent of Sutherlandshire inn of _Ard and gay Ross , a mile -shire south at this of
from the bri the dge nets , we , stopped examined to in lunch honor , and of were our regaled arrival . by Here salmon , too fresh , we
should have found ourselves perplexed as to choice of routes had we not made up our minds before , for at this point three roads present
themselves to the traveller ' s choice . One , and a very beautiful road it is , to Lairg , following the course of the River Shin to its source in anoth
Loch Shin , affording a view of the fine Falls of the Shin ; er , the and coast the third road , b the y Dornoch less frequented , which is , but also infinit the mail el favor y finer road of , hill the to Golsp road latter ie to ,
country and the , same crossing , growing place the . wilder b ridge had , and found alread more our y decided desolate selves at in with once every in a step wild , until hill , of the
undergoes pl withi ace n to a fragrant fe w comp mile birch lete s of change Gol woods spie , , and and where cultivated barren the rocks character fields and . moorland Issuing country f rom ive
180 Rambles Northward.
180 RAMBLES NORTHWARD .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/36/
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