A correspondent of a Scotch paper says that the discovery of gold in the protogene rocks of Sutherland is not new. In the sixteenth century it was found in valuable quantities at Durness, on the north coast, and, together with the washings of the Elvan, in Lanarkshire, supplied the bullion for the Scottish money, and probably also for the present Scottish crown, or part .©fit
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 479, 18 March 1869, Page 2
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65Untitled Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 479, 18 March 1869, Page 2
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