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or three goes where apparently there were fewer birds than on 

 the E.S.E. side, the outer portion of the group began to open out, 

 but before speaking of them Soraidh, — farewell island — comes 

 next to be mentioned. It is composed of three main "lumps," and 

 two smaller semi-detached residences of sea-fowl at either end. 

 These are separated by apparently deep water channels, and the 

 landing appears to be difficult on any of them. They form 

 rounded "lumps," rather than stacks, with precipitous sides. Sor- 

 aidh is the furthest south of the group, and hence, perhaps, has 

 received the name from mariners leaving the islands. 



Besides the above, between Eilean Tigh and Eilean Mor there 

 is a stack — a square comparatively low mass some 60 or 80 feet in 

 height — in mid-channel, and beyond appears an island of some- 

 what similar shape to another of the Western Islands, and which 

 forms a stack close to the W. side of Eilean Mor, but has no 

 name on the Chart, though from its size, it appears to have equal 

 claims with the outlying skerries of Gealtir. 



The next which come into view are the following : — Rhodorheim, 

 probably an adaptation of Rudha doi'uinn, meaning anguish point, 

 lies most to the northward of the western group. Bronn na cleit — 

 the protuberance (or belly) of the reef — which agreeably with its 

 name rises in peculiar shape and abruptness from the centre of 

 what from this view appears a long reef, is really three detached 

 islands, and many skerries, of w T hich Bronn na cleit is the 

 westernmost. Eilean an Gobha — the smith's island — is the 

 southernmost of the western group. These three open out past 

 the end of Eilean M6r, and, as I have said, appear at first like one 

 large island. Penetrating the lower end of Rhodorheim, is a 

 small tunnel in the shape of an erect parallelogram, bridged over 

 by apparently a square block of rock, as shewn in my sketch, 

 [Plate IV.] and rising from the sea passage beneath is a small 

 pinnacle of rock in the centre. 



There are thus, therefore, six islands,^ two named rocks, and 

 numerous skerries, which really constitute the group. 



In Maps. Correct Gaelic. Meaning. 



Flannan Isles. 

 Seven Hunters. 

 Seaforth's Hunters. 



Eilean Flannan 



or 

 Eilean an Flannan. 



St. Flannan's Isle. 

 The Flannan 

 Islands. 



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