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Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain (1862)

Howitt, William, 1792-1879 · London : A.W. Bennett · leaf 53

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landof Morven, the region of Oflian, and then we are in Mull,failing up the very harbour of Tobermory, where one of thefhips of the Spanifh Armada perifhed. Then we-are courfingover the breezy waters, amid diftant profpeds of the Hebrides,Eig, and Canna and Rum, and the blue tops of the far… … And anon you approach the rocky ifle of Icolmkill, awild and naked crag-land of about three miles Ions; and onewide. It is needlefs, fays Robert Chambers in his Pic-tures of Scotland, to inform the reader that this is, as Johnfonexprefles it, the illuftrious ifland, which was once the lumi-nary of…

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