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Title: Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Groome, Francis Hindes, 1851-1902
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Publisher: Edinburgh : T.C. Jack
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a richdisplay of landscape with concourse of strangers to beholdit. A great drawback, however, is excessive humidityof the climate, the rainfall at Oban being 6529, themean temperature 473. Another drawback, thoughoperating vastly more in the summer than in the wintermonths, is occasional, fitful, severe tempestuousness;and this combines with the prevailing boldness and rocki-ness of the shores to render navigation perilous. Light-houses are at Corran in Loch Eil, Mousedale in Lismore,Kuna-GaU in the Sound of Mull, Ardnamurchan Pointat the extreme NW of the mainland, Skerryvore WSWof Tiree, Rhu-Vaal at the N end of the Sound of Islay,Macarthurs-Head at the S end of the Sound of Islay,Rhinns at Oversay in Islay, Dune Point in Loch Indal,Skervuile near the S end of the Sound of Jura, JIull ofKintyre at the southern extremity of Kintyre, Sandaisland, 6 miles ESE of the Mull of Kintyre, and Devaarisland at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch. LIuch of the inland surface is as diversified as tho
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