Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dornoch Firth

Dornoch Firth, inlet of the North Sea, between Ross and Sutherland; it is 22¼ m. long, and 11 wide at entrance (from Tarbat Ness to Brora); it offers some good harbourage, but the navigation is impeded by sandbanks and shoals; its waters abound in cod, haddocks, &C.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "inlet of the North Sea"   (ADL Feature Type: "channels")
Administrative units: Ross and Cromarty ScoCnty       Sutherland ScoCnty
Place: Dornoch

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