Scotland Genealogy: Ross
Cromarty Census & County Records
a northern county of Scotland. The mainland portion is bounded
N. by Sutherland and Dornoch Firth, E. by the North Sea and
Moray Firth, S. by Beauly Firth and Inverness-shire and W.
by the strait of the Minch. The island portion, consisting
of as much of the island of Lewis as lies north of a line
drawn from Loch Resort to Loch Seaforth, is bounded on the
W., N. and E. by the Atlantic, and S. by Harris, the southern
part of Lewis. Many islands, all but eleven uninhabited, are
scattered principally off the west coasts of Lewis and the
mainland. The area of the mainland is 1,572,294 acres and
of the islands 404,413 acres, giving a total for the county
of 1,976,707 acres or 3088.6 sq. m. ... On the North Sea front
the chief indentations are Beauly Firth and Inner Moray Firth,
marking off the Black Isle from Inverness-shire; Cromarty
Firth, bounding the districts of Easter Ross and the Black
Isle; Moray Firth, separating Easter Ross from Nairnshire;
and Dornoch Firth, dividing north-east Ross from Sutherlandshire.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed. Vol. 23. Cambridge,
1911 ]
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