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| | The Achreny Mission - 1. 1760 to 1815 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Writing for the First Statistical Account in 1791, John Cameron, the minister of Halkirk, mentions a mission-house nine miles from his church at which "the minister of the parish was wont to preach every fourth Sabbath as a voluntary deed, if not prevented by bad weather". |
 | | The mission-house, he says, was large, and had been built and maintained by the people of the district, and "of late years, they have had a missionary supported at their own expense also". |
 | | As Mr Beaton remarks, however, John Munro's entry for Halkirk in the New Statistical Account "is a very eloquent piece of work, decidedly the most eloquent of all the productions of Caithness ministers" in either Statistical Account. |
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