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and richly ornamented with foliage. It was brought 

 irorn It >c ecclefiailical miuins 



. its of the continent ha\ | 

 . 



; profpecls, the main o 1 



.culurly the 

 ' ..ii, tin- fin lace of the country aiToR 



Btmtions* One of thefe riles from th<- 

 font; ' the bay of .eltown to a Iv 



h over-tops the neighbouring mountains; bur 

 to behold the r;: id and water, to 



the grcateft advanta : \.ill be neceilary to ride 



ic lofty promontory called the mull of ' 

 tire*, where no obitrudtions intercept thole magnifi- 

 cent vicsvbof nature, comprehending the loud, 

 brides, the north coaft of Ireland, i\ \ >arau-d 

 Cantireby a channel of 13 miles; the firth of Clyde; 

 the iflands of Sanda, Ailia, and Arran; with the 

 of Galloway and Airfhire, at the didance'of 30 miles. 

 Thole who incline to vifit the Giant's Cauleway, 

 on the oppofite coaft of Ireland, may, if the weather 

 be fettled, hire a wherry and four men at Campbel- 

 town, which will convey them thither in a frw 1: 

 and fhould they choofe to return by water to Invt 

 the fame veflel may be engaged at a trifling expence. 

 This pafifage opens the Hrth of Clyde, and its iflands, 

 viz. Sanda, thecraigof Ailia, Arran, Bute, and the 2 

 Cumbras. Of theie iflands, Arran is the moftconfi- 

 derable, being 14 miles in length, and generally 7 

 in width. It refembles Jura in foil, and yields to 

 none of the Hebride iflands in height. Bute U 

 13 miles in length, and 5 where wideft, tapering to 



u at both ends. It is in general low and fer- 

 tile, but totally abandoned by the carl to which it 

 , who hath not vouchsafed to honour it 



he mull of Galloway, the ir.oft foiithcrn point of 

 Jand, Ik-s in lat 54-44; the mull oi i lat. 555-; 



, the moft northern point of Ireland, in lat. 55-^1. 



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