The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

ARGYLLSHIRE. 375
Many lives are sacrificed iu the pursuit of its great iudustr}', one quarter of
the tovm being mainly inhabited by the widows of fishermen, and hence known
as Widows' Row. Sicainsbost is a fishing village on the north-western coast of
Lewis.
Gaelic is still spoken throughout Ross, except in Black Isle, which was settled
in the days of James VI. by people from the south.
Sutherland is the wildest and most desolate of all the Highland, counties,
its onlj' cultivable tract forming a narrow fringe along the coast of the North
Sea. Oolitic limestones occur here, almost the only place where they are
Fig. 188.—SrORyowAY.
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found in Scotland. The interior of the county is furrowed by deep glens filled
Avith lochs, above which Ben More of Assynt, Ben Klibrech (3,160 feet), and
other mountains rear their naked heads. Chief among these glens is that within
which lies Loch Shin, and which drains eastward through the Kyles of Suther-
land into the Dornoch Firth. Bonar, at the head of that loch, and Dornoch,
the county town, are mere fishing villages. Gohjnc, near which rises the magni-
ficent Dunrobin Castle; Brora, where coal is won and clay manufactured into
bricks; and Hehmdak lie on the open North Sea. Portskerra, Tongue, Eddrachilliii,
and Locltinver are small hamlets on the north and west coasts, which would escape
notice except in a country so thinly peopled.