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    254 KAMBI/ES NORTHWARD.

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    •*— The Road From Melvich To Tongue Skir...

    we find these native viands , and fresh meat and bread , when obtained , were fairly thrown into the background .

    About a mile east of Durness , in the limestone rock of the coast , are the curious Caves of Sinoo , objects of great wonder in the days of Sir Walter Scott , who describes his visit to them and the awful

    feelings they conjured up , in terms which it would take the Mammoth Cave These of Kentuck cavesmore y to curious inspire than now . anything elseare situated at the

    head of a narrow , gulley running back from the , sea ; along the bottom flows a small stream , which , finding its way from the

    thus heights forming above a throug cascade h a of large some orifice eighty in feet the , roof here of runs the into inner the cave sea . ,

    The Cave of Smoo has three chambers or compartments , the outer being entered from the beach through a natural arch of extensive

    span , and of fine and graceful proportions . The roof , sides , and flooring of this outer cave are in many parts covered with a delicate

    green plant and a species of red moss , which seen from the depths of the inner cave glow and glitter in the sunlight reflected from without

    with a shine as of emeralds and rubies . On the west side of the outer cave , an opening in the rock , some

    twenty feet by eight , leads into the second cave or compartment , the access to which is over a high ledge of rock behind a deep pool

    formed by the oozing of the water brought down by the cascade . It is only by means of a boat that this inner cave can be visited ;

    the said boat being brought from the beach by the fishermen and launched upon the pool , serves in the first instance as a bridge to

    the ledge , where , disembarking and clinging to the side as he best can , the visitor waits the somewhat difficult hauling up of the boat ,

    and its launching on the other side into the dark lake by the rough and readcrewwholied with torches and candles , row across

    the cavernou y s waters , , to supp the foot of the cascade , and thence to the extremity of the cavewhere a third cave or compartment ,

    upper into which the light of day never , penetrates , is revealed to sight . The second cave , with its foaming cascade dashing into the dark

    waters of the subterranean lake , rippling and flecking the surface with snow-white flakes , has a gloomy charm of its own ; "but the

    outer cave , as seen from this cavernous depth , with its magical Ci coloring bairns of _" and emerald h and icturesque ruby , its groups fishermen of golden attracted -haired by , bare the -footed

    stranger ' s visit , to what roug is their p every-day playground , and haunt , was to our The thoug cliffs ht and by far rocks the on most this picturesque part of the of coast the ab two ound . with beautiful

    bays and creeks , till we near the dangerous headland of Cape Wrath , whose stupendous granite sides rise perpendicularly from the

    sea , a very wall of rock , against which the waves , even in their holistorm day mood the , boom waters with a lash sullen and and foam ominous with inconceivable roar , and wh wildness ere in angry

    , and fury .

    254 Kambi/Es Northward.

    254 KAMBI / ES NORTHWARD .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/38/