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[page] 68 -- Parish of Laggan -- County Inverness

SPEY SIDE GUIDE -- Corrie Yairack (continued) -- rocky nose, the origin of this name, is taken from the roaring of the Deer during the rutting season. The Corrieyarick (OLD MILITARY) road may be seen rising on the acclivity of the hill. "The road is carried over it by (12) twelve traverses, like the course of a ship when beating to windward; and when the traveller has ascended a considerable distance, he may see another traveller who is really following him, walking in an opposite direction. "Thus that steep ascent, which was so difficult to be attained even by foot-passengers is rendered everywhere more easy for wheel-carriages than Highgate Hill" Skirne, who crossed this mountain, by what he justly called the highest pass in Britain, on a stormy day, has dilated upon its difficulties and desolation. He asserts that the wildest and most dreary solitude of Siberia cannot display a sean more desolate." On a fine day a person may command a very extensive view from the hill top, where the traveller may also refresh himself from the General's Well," called after General Wade who was the maker of the road. "The Military Roads the necessity for which was seen by the Government in 1715 was begun in the Year 1726 and were eleven Years in formation", Prince Charles passed over here in August 1745 when he raised the Standard of Rebellion The road at present is unfit for vehicles of any kind
James Archbold