. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Depth 0 to 2SFathoiiiij. , 25 Miles. 848 THE BRITISH ISLES. Head, on the small island of Bernera, the development of this chain of gneissicislands is so regular that in the eyes of the inhabitants of Scotland there exists butone Long Island. This island, however, is made up of hundreds of fragments—islands, islets, rocks—most of which are inhabited, though the population isnumerous only on Lewis and Harris (which jointly form the northern and largestisland of the group), North TJist, South Uist, Benbecula, and Barra. Each ofthese fragments of Long Island ha
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Depth 0 to 2SFathoiiiij. , 25 Miles. 848 THE BRITISH ISLES. Head, on the small island of Bernera, the development of this chain of gneissicislands is so regular that in the eyes of the inhabitants of Scotland there exists butone Long Island. This island, however, is made up of hundreds of fragments—islands, islets, rocks—most of which are inhabited, though the population isnumerous only on Lewis and Harris (which jointly form the northern and largestisland of the group), North TJist, South Uist, Benbecula, and Barra. Each ofthese fragments of Long Island has its hills, its Ben More, or Big Mountain,its lakes, peat bogs, lochs, and fishing ports. The traces of ancient glaciers are Fig. 172.—Lochs of Southern 1 : 275, G Depth 0 to 28Fathoms. 28 to 55Fathoms. 2 Miles. visible throughout, and several parts of Lewis have evidently been planed downby them into a succession of ridges.* Two submarine ridges lie outside the Western Hebrides, in the open Atlantic,but they emerge only at two places, viz. in the Flannan Islands, or SevenHunters, and in the miniature archipelago of Hirt, or Hirst, usually namedSt. Kilda. The largest island of this group is still inhabited, notwithstanding itsremote situation, the small extent of its cultivable soil, and the difficulty of lonely island, 50 miles to the west of Lewis, is formed almost wholly of steep * The culminating summits are—Bhein Mhor (Ben More), in Lewis Forest, 1,760 feet; Clesham,in Harris, 2,662 feet; Ben More, of South Uist, 2,038 feet. NORTHEEN SCOTLAND. 349 cliffs, rising to a height of 1,220 feet, and access is possible only through a cleft inthe rocks.* Hirt is undoubtedly the most forsaken place in Europe, and itsinhabitants c
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