A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Mull, island, NW. Argyllshire, separated from the mainland by the Sound of Mull and the Firth of Lorne, 7 miles W. of Oban, 224,802 ac., pop. 5229; measures in extreme length and breadth 29 and 30 miles, being the third largest of the Western Islands, and has a rugged and irregular coast, with a great number of smaller islands on the W. The climate is in general wet and stormy. The surface is mountainous, attaining in Ben More an alt. of 3185 ft. There are some verdant or cultivated spots at the heads of the various sea-lochs or inlets. The prevailing rock is trap; red granite is quarried in the SW. on the peninsula called the Ross of Mull. Fresh-water lochs are numerous. Tobermory, in the NW., is the only town.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "island" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Argyll ScoCnty |
| Place: | Mull |
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