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See MacBain's note at p. 157 of Skene's Highlanders of Scotland.

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For the boundaries of Sutherland, see Sir R. Gordon's Genealogie of the Earles, pp. i and 2, and map hereto.

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In Ness the subjacent stone is too near the surface to have ever admitted of the growth of large trees.

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Scrope, Days of Deerstalking, 3rd edit., pp. 374-377.

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Curie's Inventories of Monuments, &c., 1911 (Caithness) 1911 (Sutherland), and see his maps. Why are there no brochs in Moray, Aberdeenshire and the Mearns? Did the Picts come there from the west and south-west coast after the age of broch-building, driven before the Scots, first eastward, then north into the Grampians?

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For example in Loch Naver.

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Anderson's Scotland in Pagan Times, pp. 174-259.

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See Munro's Prehistoric Scotland, p. 356.

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Often spelt Mormaor. See Ritson, Annals of the Caledonians, pp. 62-3.