ID:QZP40_CARD_1276DESCRIPTION:This postcard belongs to Raphael Tuck's 'Oilette' series. It shows Loch Ussie, near Strathpeffer, and bears a quotation from Sir Walter Scott's work 'Marmion: a tale of Flodden Field':
"What pines on every mountain sprung,
O'er every dell what birches hung."
Loch Ussie contains several little islands and is abundant in wildlife. It is into Loch Ussie that Coinneach Odhair, the Brahan Seer, is said to have thrown his oracle stone before he was tried for witchcraft. He predicted that the stone would one day be found in the belly of a fish and that the person who found it would thus be endowed with the gift of prophecy. As far as is known, the stone has not yet been found.PLACENAME:Loch UssieOLD COUNTY/PARISH:ROSSSOURCE:Highland LibrariesCOLLECTION:Highland Libraries - Illustrated postcardsAsset ID:33202KEYWORDS:
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