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Crask is a small remote hamlet, situated on Farr Bay in the Scottish Highlands, on the shore of northern Sutherland in the Scottish council area of Highland.
The village of Bettyhill lies less than 1 mile to the west along the A836 road. The village of Farr is situated immediately to the east. It is the fictional setting on the West coast of Scotland,used in John Buchan's novel 'John Macnab'.
Category:Populated places in Sutherland
Usage examples of "crask".
Here he observed that sight which at the same moment was perturbing Lamancha on the Beallach looking over to Crask.
As it was, wandering on the skirts of Bheinn Fhada, he was as little use to John Macnab as if he had been reading Sir Walter Scott in the Crask smoking-room.
Then he would join Wattie and help him with the beast, and within a couple of hours he might be wallowing in a bath at Crask, having bidden John Macnab a long farewell.
The stag was safe at Crask, but the major part of John Macnab was in the hands of his enemies.
Old Mr Bandicott was profuse in his welcome, Junius no less cordial, Colonel Raden approving, for indeed it was not in human nature to be cold towards so friendly a being as the Laird of Crask.
The Reascuill, after leaving its precipitous glen, flows, like the Raden, for a mile or two in haughlands, which are split by the entry of a tributary, the Doran, which in its upper course is the boundary between Haripol and Crask.
The remaining occupants of Crask sat around in the big sitting-room, as though in a daze.
One is the stiffly formal butler character that Chodo turns loose on diplomatic errands, and the other is the Crask who grew up on the waterfront, whose hobby is biting the heads off cobras.