The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical . la between Loch-Linnhe and Loch-Shiel,and comprehends parts of the quoad civilia parishesof Ardnamurchan and Morven. It was constitutedby the General Assembly in 1833, and reconstitutedby the Court of Teinds since the disruption. Itslength is 25 miles; and its greatest breadth is 10miles. It is in the presbytery of Mull, and synod ofArgyle. Its parish church is a parliamentary one,built i
The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical . la between Loch-Linnhe and Loch-Shiel,and comprehends parts of the quoad civilia parishesof Ardnamurchan and Morven. It was constitutedby the General Assembly in 1833, and reconstitutedby the Court of Teinds since the disruption. Itslength is 25 miles; and its greatest breadth is 10miles. It is in the presbytery of Mull, and synod ofArgyle. Its parish church is a parliamentary one,built in 1827, containing nearly 500 sittings, andunder the patronage of the Crown. There is also aFree church ; and the sum raised in connexion withit in 1865 was £95 4s. The Village of Strontian stands at the foot of adeep valley, on the north side of Loch-Sunart, 1Jmile from the hea-d of that loch, 21 miles east-north-east of Tobermory, and 24 south-west of Fort-William. In its vicinity stands Strontian-housetlia seat of Sir James M. Riddell, Bart. The vil-lage was at one time a filthy clachan ; but in 1828,under the direction of Sir James Riddell and hislady, it underwent a total revolution ; and it now. STROWAN. 71 SUTHEKLANDSHIRL. consists partly of neat new slated cottages, andpartly of renovated old lints. A chief means of itssupport are lead mines, situated two or three milesnorth of it, up the valley. These have heen ofvacillating value, never very profitable, and at timesentirely neglected. Yet, whenever they barely paidexpenses, they have been of much practical conse-quence in yielding work and wages to a peoplewhose means of subsistence are few and scanty ;and they have, at the same time, occasioned muchimprovement of small lots of land which, but forthem, would have remained in pasture. The min-eralogy of the mines is interesting and celebrated;it embraces a great variety of the most rare calca-reous spars, with splendid specimens of the stauro-lite; and it revealed, fo
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