Excerpt from Second Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Sutherland Sutherland is a large county containing an area of upwards of 1880 square miles. As a field for archaeological research, it presents many attractions; for not only do prehistoric remains exist in great numbers, but the sparseness of the population and the relatively small area of ground broken up by agriculture have left many of these in a better state of preservation than elsewhere. These remains, how ever, are by no means equally distributed over the whole area of the county. Its western half, from its mountainous and barren character, is extremely unfavourable to the support of human life, and it need occasion no surprise that comparatively few traces of the occupation of the prehistoric people are to be found in these infertile districts. Where man exists to-day man existed in former ages, and the majority of the objects of antiquity must be sought in the eastern half of the county, along the seashore, or by the margin of some productive loch or kyle, on the sides of the principal straths, and by the main arteries of communication. Occasionally in the heart of a deer forest the site of some ancient settlement may be discovered, but this is an exception which only gives prominence to the rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.