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| | Historical perspective for Portree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | miles, and from the extremity of Rona south-south-westward to the same point on the S is 23 miles; the greatest width of the mainland portion, from the river Snizort on the W due eastward along the head of Portree Loch, is 6¼ miles, and to the E side of Raasay in the same line 10 |
 | | Under the school board the schools of Braes, Glens, Portree, Raasay, Rona, Sconser, and Torran, with respective accommodation for 90, 27, 180, 30, 30, 50, and 60 pupils, had (1884) an average attendance of 32, 20, 123, 36, 26, 25, and 23, and grants of £14, 17s., £23, 1s. |
 | | In the Braes district there is a school built and endowed with part of a fund of £2050, given by Mr Donald Macdiarmid, of South Carolina, in 1831, for the purpose of erecting and endowing schools at Borve, in Snizort, and Braes, in Portree. |
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