Gruids (Scottish Gaelic: Na Grùidean) is a small remote hamlet, in the council area of Highland, Scotland.

As they approached the other side they received word from the ferryman, John Murray, that the people there were expecting them and they therefore asked him to return them back to the opposite shore, which he declined to do.

Here, Ross managed to escape and hide in a schoolmaster's house, but the windows were broken, the door unlocked from the inside and he was re-captured.

Having been reunited with the other two captives they were set free, but Bannerman still with his hands bound and clothes tied round his neck had to stumble off in the direction of Golspie.

[4] The future geologist and writer Hugh Miller stayed with an aunt and uncle at Gruids during childhood holidays and observed the geological features.