Rock on, Cromarty! Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 4/20/2007
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A stroll round Cromarty is always enjoyable. This one has the added bonus of having a cache at the end of it!

Cromarty, on the northern tip of the Black Isle, is the seat of the Urquhart family whose castle stood on a hill above it.   George Ross bought the Cromarty estate in 1722, and established the manufacture of biscuit and cotton-bagging from imported hemp which employed over 200 people in the factory and more than twice that number in their own homes for many years. He also built the largest brewery in the north, which was intended to encourage ale drinking rather than whisky drinking among the people. A nail and spade factory was set up and lace makers were brought from England. Later a factory for the curing of pork and cod was set up, the produce from which was sent to England weekly. With this industrialisation and the breakdown of the clan system following the abortive Jacobite rebellion, Gaelic speakers flooded into Cromarty. Ross built the elegant Gaelic Chapel (1783) which stands on the high ground above the town.

Cromartyflourished in the 18th and 19th century as a fishing port then supplying salt, grain and hemp across the world. During this time the large Georgian merchant houses were built alongside the fisher cottages in the small lanes and vennels that have been there since the 12th century. Today looking down the Firth more modern industries, in particular the lucrative oil industry are now evident. Described as “the jewel in the crown of Scotland’s vernacular architecture”, Cromarty is an outstanding example of a coastal town of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is a convenient place from which to explore the Highlands, and, situated off the main tourist track, and provides a relaxing retreat-giving the best of both worlds. The surrounding area is ideal for many outdoor activities, including golf, walking and fishing, and of course, wildlife watching!
  
The town is also closely associated with its most famous son, Hugh Miller, a self-taught geologist, who wrote about the history of the earth with an eloquence, breadth of imagination and descriptive power like no one else has then or since. His fossil collection of over 6,000 specimens became the founding core of what is today's Scottish national collection in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. His books, such as The Old Red Sandstone, The Cruise of the Betsey, Footprints of the Creator, Testimony of the Rocks, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, and My Schools and Schoolmasters (autobiography) became bestsellers in many editions.

 Millerwas an evangelical Christian. He could be ferociously aggressive in debate with his religious opponents, via the columns of his newspaper, The Witness. He helped to found a new Presbyterian Church, and gave it its name, the Free Church of Scotland. For all his ferocity in print, he was intensely shy, introverted, humble, prone to melancholy, and plagued with silicosis all his life because of his toils in his youth as a stonemason. In the end he took his own life - a single gunshot to the chest - early on Christmas Eve at his home in Portobello, just outside Edinburgh. By then he was tormented by nightmares and fears of approaching insanity. He was buried in Edinburgh, but there is a monument to him in Cromarty: as he had committed suicide, it was not deemed appropriate to erect this on hallowed ground, so it stands on a grassy hill overlooking the town.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre ebpx oruvaq gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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