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COLONSAY 



ture of not less than 42 F. during January are the southern 

 islands of the Outer Hebrides North Uist, Benbecula, South 

 Uist, and Barra, with their islets, and Tiree in the Inner 

 Hebrides. Thus we find tender exotics, unable to survive the 

 keener winters of the neighbourhood of London, thriving 

 in the Western Islands, much farther north. 



The influences at work in modifying the cold of winter 

 are equally well marked in tempering the heat of summer. 

 During the warmest months June, July, and August 

 the only districts in the kingdom that have a mean tem- 

 perature as low as, or lower than, that of the Isles 53 to 

 57 F. are the seaboards of Argyll and Western Inverness, 

 a narrow strip along the north-east of Scotland to Kinnaird 

 Head, and the counties lying north of the Moray Firth. As 

 an agreeable change from the warmer and more enervating 

 regions of the south, the cool, bracing climate of the Islands 

 is yearly becoming more appreciated by an increasing number 

 of tourists, who travel westwards during the warmest of the 

 months. 



The mildness of the Hebridean climate is emphasised by 

 taking a wider view of the subject, and comparing the 

 climate of the country as a whole with that of other 

 countries in the same latitude. The following table, repro- 

 duced from Hann's Climatology, shows the 



MEAN TEMPERATURES ALONG LATITUDE 52 N. FROM 

 WEST TO EAST 



