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Title
Emigration Stone
Date
2002
Medium
Caithness stone
Measurements
H 400 x W 75 x D 10 cm (E)
Accession number
IV11_DO_S147
Acquisition method
commissioned by Cromarty Arts Trust
Work type
Monument
Owner
Cromarty Arts Trust
Custodian
Cromarty Arts Trust
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
THE / CLEOPATRA / AS SHE SWEPT PAST / THE TOWN OF / CROMARTY / WAS GREETED / WITH THREE CHEERS / BY CROWDS OF / THE INHABITANTS / AND / THE EMIGRANTS / RETURNED / THE SALUTE / BUT / MINGLED WITH / THE DASH OF THE WAVES / AND THE MURMURS / OF THE BREEZE / THEIR FAINT / HUZZAS SEEMED / RATHER SOUNDS / OF WAILING / AND / LAMENTATION / THAN OF A / CONGRATULATORY / FAREWELL; vessel names (reading clockwise from lower left): AMI-ANN-ASIA-BLAGDON-BOYNE- BRILLIANT-CANADA-CLEOPATRA-CLIO-CORSAIR-DALMARNOCK-DILIGENCE-ECONOMIST-GEORGE- GOOD INTENT-HEADLEY-INDUSTRY-SABENA-SIMPSON-JOHN-JOHN (.)-KATE-(.)-(.)-MACNAUHGTON-LAMB-LORD BROUGHAM-P(...)ET-POLAND-ROBERT & MARGARET-ROVER-SALAMIS-SUPERIOR-THEODORA-TRITON-TWEED-VESTAL-VIEWFORTH-XYZ-ZEALOUS-ZEPHYR