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Black Isle
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Black Isle, peninsula, 18 mi (29 km) long and up to 9 mi (14.5 km) wide, Highland, N Scotland, extending into Moray Firth. It has some of the best farmland in N Scotland, producing grain and potatoes. Cattle are also raised.
Black Isle
the. a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths


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Bobby Hogg, 89, and his brother Gordon, 82, are the last people to converse fluently in the Cromarty fisher dialect of the Black Isle, and their memories of life in the Highland village, have now been recorded and written down.
But the couple, who own 35 acres near Fortrose in the Black Isle, took their case to the Court of Session.
Having paid due attention to the Black Isle Brewery, about which I wrote the other week, I continued my easy progress around the area.
 
 
 
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