. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ISLE OF SKYE-THE KILT ROCK. NORTHERN SCOTLAND. 847 were likewise looked upon, for a considerable period, as one of the most northerncountries in Europe. Yet, as we have already seen {vide p. 301), to the Scandi-navians they were Southern Islands. The Scotch, however, know the Hebridesas Western Islands, and two amongst them are still more emphatically known asUist, or West. The ancients called these islands Hebudes, or Ehudes, wronglyread Hebridea by a careless copyist. Another ancient name ^i^- Western Islands. is that of Innis Gail; that is, scai
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ISLE OF SKYE-THE KILT ROCK. NORTHERN SCOTLAND. 847 were likewise looked upon, for a considerable period, as one of the most northerncountries in Europe. Yet, as we have already seen {vide p. 301), to the Scandi-navians they were Southern Islands. The Scotch, however, know the Hebridesas Western Islands, and two amongst them are still more emphatically known asUist, or West. The ancients called these islands Hebudes, or Ehudes, wronglyread Hebridea by a careless copyist. Another ancient name ^i^- Western Islands. is that of Innis Gail; that is, scaiei:2, Isles of the Gaels. Several among these WesternIslands must be looked upon asdetached fragments of the main-land, from which they becameseparated through the formationof a marine valley, and whichthey resemble in geological struc-ture. It was thus that Skyebecame an island. Its easternpromontory projects far intoLoch Alsh, and Kyle Rhea, thenarrow strait which connects thatloch with the Sound of Sleat, isscarcely 500 y
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