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 let here is simply Aan Reidhe Mhoire and that sandy inlet is merely Sran Ard-a-Mhullaich. These and all the other names demonstrate the beauty and strangeness of the Isle of Skye.

It is beautiful and poverty-stricken; and the native huts have such a prehistoric look, that they might have been built by the late Picts, concerning whom, as is known, there is nothing known. Then the Caledonian Gaels came here, and the Vikings from somewhere in Norway; King Hakon actually left behind him a stone stronghold, and the place is therefore called Kyle Akin. Apart from this, all these dwellers left the Isle of Skye in its original state, as it proceeded from