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Picture Number1381
Courtesy OfRoddie Macpherson
Year2008
GraveyardAvoch Parish Churchyard
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Alexander & Geddes Mackenzie.

In memory of/Sir ALEXANDER MACKENZIE of Avoch/the explorer of the North west of America/and discoverer of the/Mackenzie River/died 12th march 1820/and/Lady GEDDES ALEXANDER of Avoch/his widow/died 7th July 1860/From the lone shieling of the misty island/mountains divide us, and the wastes of the seas - /but still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, and we in dreams behold the Hebrides.



Avoch House.



[see Image No. 9035].







Picture Added on 14 March 2008.


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