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8oCARAVAN DAYShard to believe that we were still in Scotland, forthe most striking feature of the landscape wasthe dykes, which in the county of Caithness aremade entirely of paving-stones set on edge, andthe total absence of trees added to the foreignaspect of the scene. Above all the names uponthe sign-boards had a remote and alien flavour.We had been long accustomed to Altnaharras,Drumnadrochits, Overscaigs, and it was moststartling to find ourselves (if the sign-posts wereto be believed and had not been put there merelyto entertain the wayfarer) among Brubsters,Lybsters and Scurrerys. When we came tounderstand something of the accent of Caithnessshireit did perhaps seem fitting that if peopletalked like that they should live in Scurrerys andBrubsters. And many of them are called Budgeor Gunn : and one I met I know it sounds alittle too good to be true who was called GunnBudge. Altogether an enticing land of newdiscovery where we were well treated whereverwe went.That night we camped at a farm a mile fromThurso in a little lane, beneath a ten-foot wall.When Herbert reported"good broad stalls andany amount of straw," we feltthat we could nolonger deny the horses the rest they so sorely