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CROMARTY FIRTH

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROMARTY See also:FIRTH , an See also:arm of the See also:North See also:Sea, belonging to the See also:county of See also:Ross and Cromarty, See also:Scotland. From the See also:Moray Firth it extends inland in a See also:westerly and then See also:south-westerly direction for a distance of 19 M. Excepting at the See also:Bay of Nigg, on the See also:northern See also:shore, and Cromarty Bay, on the See also:southern, where it is about 5 M. wide (due N. and S.), and at Alness Bay, where it is 2 M. wide, it has an See also:average width of 1 m. and a See also:depth varying from 5 to 10 fathoms, forming one of the safest and most commodious anchorages in the north of Scotland. Besides other streams it receives the See also:Conon, Peffery, Skiack and Alness, and the See also:principal places on its shores are See also:Dingwall near the See also:head, Cromarty near the mouth, Kiltearn, Invergordon and Kilmuir on the north. The entrance is guarded by two precipitous rocks—the one on the north 400 ft., that on the south 463 ft. high—called the Sutors from a fancied resemblance to a couple of See also:shoe-makers (Scotice, souter), bending over their lasts. .There areferries at Cromarty, Invergordon and Dingwall.

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