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RAMBLES NORTHWARD. 253
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•*— The Road From Melvich To Tongue Skir...
went on , and , her fears having" subsided , _slxe was preparing * to welcome him backwhenlate one nihtsome neighbours who
very had travelled of his bod the y in same , the road sno , w broug on ht the her very g intelli , moor _gence concerning of the which
disco-, _sslie had cautioned Mm , and where it had evidently been lying some days ! Pier distress at this news was , as can easily be imagined ,
very great ; but more than all , she told us , she seemed to feel the fact fct A of foolish the bod _feeling y being as - left I look to lie back out upon by itself it , but on the full dreary of pain moor afc .
eart the to time bring , and 1 it I home could . " not Home rest till it came I had sent and a off few some days men after with was a
, carried to its last resting-place in the wild and ancient churchyard of D unless , by the sea , followed and met ; hy the country-people for
miles round , their kind hearts yearning towards the stranger , whose lonely life had met so sad and lonely an end .
Subsequent inquiries , made through the bankers at , threw liht upon the mystery . Studious and eccentricthis guest had from
boy g hood evinced a passion for solitary travel , , and there were few parts of Europe into which he had not penetrated , generally on
foot , and without affording- to his family any other indication of his whereabouts than sufficed to insure remittances through a banker . It
was rarely that he sojourned so long- in any one place as at Durin inn ; rarely , no doubt , that he found himself and his peculiarities so
sympathised with and cared for . There are not many such hostesses in the world as the hostess of the little inn at Durin , not many inns
where the money is the last thing thought of , the comfort and wellbeing- of the guest the first .
A handsome granite monument to the memory of the unfortunate stranger marks the place where he lies , the erection of which , by
his family , was the most gratifying recognition of her friendly deeds our excellent Mrs . Ross could receive .
It was in May , before the season , which is late in these districts , had commencedthat we arrived at Durinand though we had
, , given notice of our coming by a certain day , it so chanced that we arrived before . Nowin these northern and remote districts , where
, oatmeal , barley , milk , fish , and bacon form the staple consumption of the inhabitants , it is not possible without forethought and
prevision to supply fresh meat and bread . Arriving unexpectedly , ere the orders given for our convenience could be fulfilled , we found
ourselves thrown upon the native resources of barley-broth , fish , and a very delicious thin cake of a soft spongy texture , called
barley-scon , and which stands in the place of bread to the Lowlander and of oat-cake to the Highlander . For be it observed , that
Sutherlandshire , though north of Inverness , is not properly speaking the Hihlands or its inhabitants Highlanders ; be it also observed
that eak the g people of lish Sutherlandshire and that the , Scotch in common dialect with so the well Hi known ghlander in , sppure Eng , ,
the works of Burns , is peculiar to Lowlanders only . Excellent did
Rambles Northward. 253
_RAMBLES NORTHWARD . 253
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/37/
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