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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Shuna, a Hebridean island in Kilbrandon and Kilchattan parish, Argyllshire, lying 1 mile SW of the entrance of Loch Melfort, and separated from the mainland on the E by a sound 1 to 2 miles broad, from the island of Luing on the W by the Sound of Shuna, ½ to ¾ mile broad. Its length, from N to S, is 2½ miles; its greatest breadth is 1¼ mile; and its area is 1173½ acres, of which 571/7 are foreshore. The surface is all rolling, tumulated, and broken ground, whose tiny summits nowhere rise higher than 200 feet above sea-level. It possesses much of that intricate mixture of land and rock which, with the aid of wood and culture, abounds in mild soft pictures of rural beauty; it derives picturesqueness from its encincturement with intricate bands of sea, overhung by the lofty hardfeatured heights of island and mainland; and it has everywhere such a profuse and curious interspersion of natural woods, with rocks and cultivated fields and pasture lands, as to look, from end to end, like a large sea-girt park. Though topographically grouped with the Slate Islands, it possesses little or none of the clay-slate so prevalent in Luing and Seil, Easdale, Lunga, and Scarba; yet it presents interesting objects of study to a geologist, and at each end it has a bed of dark blue crystalline limestone, which has long been wrought for economical purposes. Shuna belongs to the City of Glasgow. Pop. (1861) 43, (1871) 15, (1881) 14.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a Hebridean island" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Argyll ScoCnty |
| Place: | Shuna |
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