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RAMBLES NORTHWARD. 181
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We Will Take At Random Some Fifty People...
this mountain pass at Loch Fleet , the traveller comes suddenly upon _, unmistakable evidence of the immediate vicinity of a wealthy
pro" _jjrietor , and is in fact nearing the ancient seat of the Dukes of Sutherland , Dunrobin Castle , situated about a mile on the other side of
Golspie , on a commanding height overlooking the sea , and landwards embosomed in its own woodsabove "whichfanciful pinnacles and
turrets cluster , conveying the , idea of a French , chateau rather than of one of the most ancient castles of Scotland . Dunrobin Castle was
name founded Dunrobin by Robert L e , . second Robin' Earl s tower of the Sutherland Gaelic Dun in 1097 signif , y whence ing tower its .
A and very luxurious different , suites place is of the apartments present , , D its unrobin extensive , with gardens its numerous and
terraced walks , its modem pinnacles and minarets , to the fastness himself where this with earl his y descendant followers of a the clan Clan according Cattie or to Ch some atte intrenched , of early
German extraction , but claimed ; , by Highlanders to be of the ferocious original Celtic wild cats stock with , taking which its name the country from its was conquests infested over . The the
armorial bearings of the Sutherland family certainly favor this view of the easeas their badbears a wild cat rampant , with the motto
" Touch not , , but a glove ge , " the " but" signifying " without . " The old chronicles of the Sutherland family show them constantly
at war with the neighbouring Earls of Caithness , and constantly supported in their undertaking by the Clan Gunn , which to this day
remains attached to their fortunes . It appears from these records that the name Caty was given in recognition of the extreme fierceness of the clanwhich seems at one time to have overrun the whole of
that part of , Scotland , and finally to have divided Caithness and Sutherlandshire between them ; Caithness being derived from the
word To this Caty day , as the also breed Sutherlandshire of wild cat , s which in Sutherlandshire signifies South is Caty not .
extincta fact of which we ourselves received a most convincing " olfactory , and ocular proof in the shape of a deceased member of the
sandy-brindled brood , whose carcass we encountered in the woods of Dunrobin itself !
The walks in the neighbourhood of Golspie are charming ; the grounds stay there of , Dunrobin being freel Castle y thrown , save all for times open the short to accessible the period public of , the mile while famil the y ' s
rom terraced above anti the c w p alk ath hotel s throug by the ther h sea e the is are a woods at very leads beautiful , and following cascade . , A thi to s which path or to so a
tolerable gratified its outlet preservation b on y the the si hi ght gh , of road the a ground Pietish beyond tower floor , the , and lovers carefull the of y walls anti excavated quity of the will and upper be in
story These remaining Pietish towers intact . are of a date and oriin unknown . Built of g
the stone or shale of the neighbourhood , wholly free from mortar or any other cement 3 and of a period long anterior to the discovery
Rambles Northward. 181
RAMBLES NORTHWARD . 181
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/37/
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