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while in the centre it declines more rapidly into a set of 

 lower elevations between the heads of Loch Roig and 

 Loch Seaforth. By degrees it subsides into an undulating 

 and uneven land towards Loch Kenhulavig. The moun- 

 tains on the west side, between Loch Resort and Loch 

 Bernera, are however higher than those which lie from the 

 entrance of Loch Seaforth to Loch Shell, and when viewed 

 in different directions, whether from the sea, from the 

 high lands in the interior, or from the highest summits 

 of Harris, seem no way inferior to them in elevation. 

 From these various positions, assuming points where the 

 principal summits were at equal distances from the point 

 of observation, I concluded that Suaneval was early equal 

 in height to Clisseval in Harris, which, as already shown, 

 was found to be 2,700 feet. As there is no map of this 

 country * I found considerable difficulty in procuring the 

 names of the mountains, and shall therefore mention no 

 more of them ; observing merely that the other hills con- 

 nected with this principal summit decline from it by very 

 slow degrees till they terminate at the Gallan Head and 

 the Kyles Rota. On the east side the altitudes are de- 

 cidedly inferior, although these mountains also are in the 

 first class. I can give no actual measurement of either 

 range, as the disturbed state of the weather prevented me 

 from ascending those few which are accessible. 



Few hills are to be observed in Lewis after the 

 termination of this mountain district. A group of no 

 great extent, and not reaching apparently to 800 feet in 

 height, is seen on the north side of Loch Bernera. Shortly 

 after this subsides, the hill of Barvas rises in the same 

 direction to a similar elevation. This has a tame rounded 

 outline and a mooiy surface interspersed with rocky 

 patches, declining by an insensible gradation into the 



h That in Arrowsmith's work is, like many more of the Western 

 islands, a mere outline, and a very incorrect one, apparently copied 

 from the sea charts. 



