Ida J890 16 H4 The Official Publication of the Corporation. DA ATO.Ib H4 JE FURNITURE. yp- a3 1 188007184159b ™ Visitors to Scotland should not tail to visit . ANTIQUE A. FRASER & Co.'s SALOONS, (railway station) INVERNESS. Antique Furniture. The Collection Old China. shown in the extensive Old Silver. Galleries and Old Prints Special and Showrooms will Engr GUELPH be found to Hoi UNIVERSITY OF be one of the Highl, largest in the Jac Provinces. Int< The Library OA <3 9 16 H4 PLAIN FIGURES. HdALTH kESUHTS ASSOC! AT IoNi LONDON* ) CURIOSITY SHOP, A. I NVtNNESS. IVERNESS. ' ROYAL HOTEL, INVERNESS. (OPPOSITE RAILWAY STATION.) First class. Highly Recommended. Moderate Charges. Headquarters of the Scottish Automobile Club Dining Room open to Non- Residents. Hotel Porters await all trains and Caledonian Canal Steamers. A Chaiming House, contaii Unique Ccllect.cn of Ant.que Furniture. China and Engrav.ncs.' Under the personal management of the proprietor— Telephone 54. J. S CHRISTIE. i - MITCHELL & CRAIG, The Leading Grocers & Italian Warehousemen, INVERNESS, SUPERB QUALITY - LOW PRICES COMBINED MAINTAINED. WITH HIGH QUALITY. TEAS« Delicate and Refined Flavours, from 1/6 to 2/4 per pound- RflTTPD Weekly importations. Nothing Sweeter or Fresher can possibly be oU I 1 C,K. obtained. Our Stranraer Fresh Butter is a table delicacy. rrwrnAi /^nArrniCC A. car<fu'ly selected stock to choose from. Every Clfc,INfc,KAL UHULCKltO. t hi n g Fresh and in Season. e 10 ' c arce stoc ks of the Choicest \»7I'M¥?Q. ^ ^ ' ' Wines. Port, Sherry, Claret, WliNEr-O. Burgundy, Champagne. WHKKY °ur " ROYAL CREAM OF BEN-WYVIS" has a wortd-wide repu- WrllOlYI. tation. 7 years old. 18/- per gallon; 10 years old, 21/- per gallon. This Whisky has the Largest Sale in the Highlands. BASS'S PALE ALE. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE. WORTHINGTON'S PALE ALE. GUINNESS'S DUBLIN STOUT. COMBES'S LONDON STOUT. DERATED WATERS. APOLLINARIS WATER. Price Lists on Application. <> -°- <> Established nearly Half-a-Century. Telegrams: "Mitchell and Craig, Inverness. Telephone: No. 123. tup. ubrary UNIVERSITY OF GLtlPtf The Highland Jewellery Establishment famous for Artistic Highland Jewellery. ?rascr, Tcrpson $ tftacbean, By Special Appointment Union Street Corner, INVERNESS. Highland Dress | l Highland and Ornaments. Cairngorm Jewellery. Mounted Rams' Heads. Amethysts and Scotch Pebbles. , \ / Stags Hoofs and •®' Scotch Pearls. Horns. Ptarmigan and Registered Grouse Claw i m! Novelties. Brooches. Antique Patterns Carved Oak /J" Clan Crest Quaichs and m Brooches. Bowls. % if Horn Goods in Novelties in Silver Granite and Mountings. Silver. Novelties for Great variety of those who have Celtic Patterns. 1 everything. SPECIALITY SCOTCH PEARLS. The Highland Jewellery Establishment. Specialist in Scotch Goods Clan Tartans. Travelling Rugs. Harris Tweeds. Lovely Costume Tweeds. Illustrated Catalogues Exclusive Ideas of in Specialities Golf Jerseys, Post Free Knitted on Waistcoats, application Woven Ginghams, and Famed Winceys the SCOTCH WAREHOUSE, (Patterns Free). ^ HIGH STREET & <c^^ INGLIS STREET, Inverness. Published ^%dbJt±tL &j^ for the CORPORATION by THE HEALTH RESORTS ASSOCIATION, 20, John Street, Bedford Row, London, W.C. [All Rights Reserved. THE LARGEST HIRING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. Telegraphic Address : Macrae & Dick, DICK. INVERNESS. JOB, POSTING and GENERAL HORSE-HIRING ESTABLISHMENT, The supplying of Shooting . INVERNESS. Tenants our . Speciality . A select assortment o[ Horses and Carriages of every description Let combined with on Job for the season or year at strictly moderate terms. Sole Agents for the Celebrated ARGYLL CAR for Inverness- The Largest shire, Elginshire, Nairnshire, and the whole North of Scot- Garage in . land, and for ALBION CARS for Inverness-shire and Scotland. Ross-shire. INSPECTION INVITED. PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION. HIGH-CLASS CARS FOR HIRE by Day, Week, or Month. Official Repairers to the Repairs to any make of Car by Expert Automobile Club, G.B. & I. Motor Engineers. MOTOR ACCESSORIES. BATTERIES RE=CHARGED. The premises are very extensive. Open Day and Night. All kinds and sizes of Pneumatic Tyres, all brands of Petrol, Oils, Greases, &c, in stock. 7 ?g^J*Fxmm tab J? " I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials and the things of fame That do renown this City." — Shakespeare. f^ NVERNESS, as its name indicates (Inbhir-Nis 'the inver of the Ness"), is '^r- situated at the mouth of the river Ness, the town, which originally lay V^F entirely on the east side of the river, being now extended to the west side, where indeed a large proportion of the most prosperous of the citizens reside. For beauty and variety of surroundings it is unsurpassed in Scotland. In the summer and autumn seasons it is a highly popular resort of tourists, sportsmen and excursionists, its attractions, natural, artificial, and historical, giving it a conspicuous place among the pleasure resorts of the kingdom. Its climate too, is mild, temperate and healthy. To its natural attractions, Inverness in modern times has added the advantages of railway and steamboat communication with all parts of the kingdom. It is of importance to intending residents to know that Inverness is well provided with schools. The Royal Academy, founded in 1793, is a handsome new building Inverness from the River. [D. Whyte. on the Crown lands, and is equipped on the most approved principles, and thoroughly staffed for the work of higher education. The Inverness College, a spacious quad- rangular building, is situated in Ardross Street, and gives education after the model of the English public schools. The College is a centre for army preliminary examin- ations. There is ample accommodation for boarders. The Board Schools are the High School (a higher grade school), the Farraline Park School, the Central School, the Merkinch School and Clachnaharry School. Other schools are : the Burgh Technical and Art School, the Kindergarten School, the Cathedral School, Bishop Eden's Mission School, the Roman Catholic School, and a number of excellent private seminaries. The Inverness dialect of English, noticed by Johnson and Defoe, still enjoys its character of great purity and beauty. The streets of the town are substantially built, its drainage system is most com- plete, its shops are large and its hotels numerous and well appointed. THE EXCHANGE. The most convenient starting point for the visitor who desires to see the principal ' ' places of interest in the town, is the Exchange, as the ' planestanes ' in front of the Town Hall are called. In the centre of this flagged space stands the Forbes Fountain, presented to the town by the late Dr. George F. Forbes, of Millburn. In close proximity is the ancient Mercat Cross of the burgh, recently restored through the generosity of Sir Robert B. Finlay, K.C.. while Member of Parliament for the Inverness District of burghs. At the foot of the Cross will be seen Clach-na-Cudainn, or the Stone of the Tubs, the palladium of the burgh. It received this name from the cir- cumstance that it formed the resting place of the servants and lasses of the olden time as they carried their tubs or stoups of water from the river, before the era of gravitation water. The Town House, whose front wall extends the whole length of the Exchange, is quite a modern building, in the decorated Gothic style. It contains besides the Town Hall, the Council Chamber and Committee Rooms, the offices of the Town Clerk, the Town Chamberlain, the Burgh Surveyor, the Sanitary Inspector, and the Burgh Assessor. The Town Hali,. [D. Whyte. 10 The Town Hall con- Bridge Street, meets the tains a number of win- eye. It is over ] 150 feet dows filled in ' with in height and of fine stained glass figures and graceful proportions. It emblems, while the ceil- was built in 1780 at a ing is enamelled with cost of £1,600. In the shields and heraldic early years of last cen- devices. Inside are to tury it was struck by be seen busts and por- lightning and is slightlv traits of former Provosts twisted in consequence. of the town, of Flora Turning up the Castle M a c d o n a 1 d , and of Wynd we pass on the various personages of right the Public distinction connected Library and Museum. with Inverness burgh The former contains or county. about 9,000 volumes. The Council Chamber, yards further which occupies the west A few up we come to the Burgh end of the building, is an apartment admirably Police buildings, which embrace the Police adapted for office and the its pur- poses. Burgh Court As one House. On passes out the opposite of the Town of the Castle House the Wynd is the elegant Fire Station. town stee- ple, which On the top stands at of the hill is Cathedral Font. [D. Whyte. the head of situated View from the Castle Hii.i.. [D. Whyte. 12 THE CASTLE, which gives the hill its name. It is a massive piie. The front portion, built in 1834-35, contains the Sheriff Court House, the offices of the Sheriff clerk and the County Police Station. The back half of the Castle building was erected in 1846-48, and was for many years the County Prison. It has recently, however, been converted into offices for the use of the County Council, the prison being removed to Porterfield, a short distance to the east. Right in front of the Castle stands a striking monument erected in 1899 in honour of Flora Macdonald, the Highland heroine who befriended Prince Charlie in his wanderings and contrived the means of his escape to France. The view from the Castle Hill is one of surpassing beauty and variety. It com- mands a wide sweep reaching from the hills of Ross-shire round by the Beauly Firth, Craig Phadraig, with its vitrified fort, the northern terminus of the Cale- donian Canal, the Leacainn, where stands the Northern Counties Lunatic Asylum, Tomnahurich Cemetery and away to the south the Great Glen of Albyn, which ex- tends from the Moray Firth on the north-east to the waters of the Atlantic on the south-west.