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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| EASTER HEAD | Dunnet Head Easter Head | Description of - Continued [from page 5] One is forcibly reminded of Shakspeare's description of Dover Cliff - "How fearful and dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! ... The murmuring surge, that on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight topple me down headlong." Dunnet Head is altogether composed of freestone, and the strata dip, or incline to the north east at an angle of 45° |
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| DUNNETHEAD LIGHTHOUSE | Dunnet Head Lighthouse | 001 | The lighthouse, which was erected, in 1832, is, at one part not much more than 50 feet from the edge of the precipice. During a heavy storm from the west - the enormous billows, as they dash against the rugged face of the cliff, throw up the spray as high as the light of the building, often mingled with stones, which occasionally break the glass. And such is the prodigious force of the wind and the sea united upon the headland, that the very rock itself seems to tremble: while the lighthouse shakes from top to bottom, as if it were affected by an earthquake. the light which is a fixed one, is seen at the distance of 23 miles. The height of the lantern above the highest spring tides is 346 feet This lighthouse was erected at a great expense by the Commissioners for Northern Lights - A small harbour or rather pier has been built by them at Brough for landing their stores, and a well made road connects it with the lighthouse There a few acres of arable land and a garden belonging to the lighthouse |
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[Page] 6Ph [Parish] of Dunnet -- Co [County] of Caithness
[Signed] George Hobson, CA [Civilian Assistant]
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