I have a letter dated 1834 from my great-great-grandfather in Ardcronie, Kincardine, Ross-shire to one of his sons who has recently gone to King's College for the first time. The family has learnt he has arrived safely --- "from the Newspaper". Father and son both travelled to Invergordon, presumably on the mail coach, but they parted there. The fact that there is a newspaper announcement makes me think the son continued to Aberdeen by boat rather than the mail coach. I see in Pigot's Directory for 1825 (at least) that a ship called the Eliza travelled from Aberdeen to Inverness, Cromarty and Burghead "occasionally" (p.181), and that a ship went from Invergordon to Cromarty "occasionally" (p.640). Is this likely to be the same boat? The Eliza appears to take both goods and passengers. Any details such as length of journey and conditions of travel gratefully received. Also, would the newspaper in which boat arrivals were announced be the Aberdeen Chronicle, or the Aberdeen Journal, or somewhere else? It would have to be a paper which circulated in north-east Ross-shire, specifically Tain. Sara