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of stone at the foot of some old glacier. The island opposite Mr. Melles’ 
house must be at all events largely artificial. It is small.’ 
Tiree.—Miss Elspeth Campbell writes from Inverary Castle: ‘I 
would suggest two islands in Loch Bhasapol, in Tiree. They are with- 
out doubt artificial and should be of interest; both islands are fairly 
close to the shore, but there is no trace of a causeway. In fact, the 
bottom of the loch is sand and mud, though the islands are built of 
large stones. No one knows their origin. The two islands are at 
different ends of the loch, half to quarter mile apart. One is very 
small, the other slightly bigger—almost big enough for a small fort.’ 
Regarding these islands, Mr. Peter Anderson, gamekeeper, Scarinish, 
sends the following details: ‘ As regards the islands on Loch Bhasapol, 
I have been on them hundreds of times while duck-shooting. Hilean 
Mhic Conuill is entirely artificial, and there are a few stones, the remains 
of a causeway, towards the N.W. There is an entire absence of stones 
both on the floor of the loch (which is sand) outside the limits of the 
island. The island is about 18 yards across, partly under water. 
‘Hilean Aird na Brathan appears to me to have been a much more 
important place. It is partly artificial, the stones are very much larger, 
and they must have had great difficulty in getting them there. It is 
50 yards from the shore, and the water round is 3 to 4 feet deep. The 
island is 15 yards by 10 yards. . . The other islet that is partly artificial 
is in Loch na Gile, and is just as Mr. Beveridge mentions in his book 
(‘‘ Coll and Tiree,’’ page 115).’ Mr. Anderson also considers the island 
in Loch na Buaile as probably artificial. 
Coll.—Besides Tiree, the islands of Coll and N. Uist have been 
described by Dr. Erskine Beveridge, LL.D., whose careful investigation 
and excellent illustrations make one wish that other districts in these 
distant parts could find so able an historian. It is unnecessary here to 
give more than a brief summary of his account of the island Duns. He 
states that they are somewhat numerous in Coll, and that all have 
evidently possessed ‘* clachans ’’ or causeways for approach. The island 
in Loch Fada is 20 yards from the shore, with a causeway from the 
N. Half a mile S. of this is Loch Ghille Caluim, the island in which 
can be reached in a dry summer by wading. It measures about 20 feet 
in diameter. The islands on Loch Rathilt, Loch Urbhaig, and Loch 
an Duin all have causeways to the shore. All the above Dr. Beveridge 
considered as probably artificial. In Loch Cliad there are two natural 
islands, each of them approached by a causeway. About 15 yards S.W. 
of these ‘ is a smaller islet of stones, to all appearance entirely artificial,’ 
and connected with one of the larger islands by a causeway. The 
Upper and Lower Mill Lochs—marked on the Ordnance Map as Loch 
nan Cinneachan and Loch Anlaimh—both contain islands, evidently 
artificial, ‘ with well-preserved causeways, through rather deep water.’ 
Isle of Eigg.—Just N. of the foregoing islands is the small isle of 
EKigg, measuring 3 by 4 miles. In it is the little Loch na Mna Moire, 
with a distinctly artificial island. Rev. F. McClymont writes: ‘I 
thought it might interest you to know that there is one of these islands 
in a loch here. It goes by the name of the Loch of the Big Woman. 
There is a funny tradition of its being inhabited by abnormally big 
