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ROSS-SHIRE is a County
Palatine of Scotland and Easter Ross is the garden of Ross-shire. The
district extends from the burn of Alness (the river Averon) on the south to
the Dornoch Firth and the Kyle of Sutherland on the north. On the east it is
bounded by the Moray, the Cromarty, and the Dornoch, Firths, while on the
west it is in touch on high lands with the parish of Lochbroom, and that of
Assynt in Sutherland. It has an area of 283,316 acres and in this area are
embraced the nine parishes of Rosskeen, Kilmuir, Logie Easter, Nigg, Fearn,
Tarbat, Tain, Edderton, and Kincardine, the Royal Burgh of Tain, the Police
Burgh of Invergordon, as well as the villages of Bridgend of Alness,
Saltburn, Balnabruach (Nigg), Shandwick, Balintore, Fearn, Port-mahomack,
Inver, Edderton, and Ardgay.
The Highland Railway enters the district at Alness where there is a
remarkably handsome skew bridge of two arches ; and there are stations at
Alness, Invergordon, Delny, Kildary, Nigg, Fearn, Tain, Edderton, Bonar
Bridge, and Culrain near which the railway is carried across the Oykel into
Sutherlandshire by a latticed iron girder viaduct of 230 feet span, 55 feet
above ordinary spring tides It traverses in all over thirty-two miles of the
district. Though at Alness the railway is only 75 feet above sea level, at
Invergordon 23 feet, at Tain 15 feet, and at Bonar Bridge 20 feet, yet the
views got on right and left from a railway carriage are marvellously
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