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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... ISLAND AND PARISH OF CUMBRAY. PRESBYTERY OF GREENOCK, SYNOD OF GLASGOW AND AYR. THE REV. JAMES DRUMMOND, MINISTER. I.--Topography And Natural History. Name.--Big Cumbray is an island in the Frith of Clyde, four miles east from the Island of Bute; two miles west from the parish of Largs; and nearly one mile north from the Little Cumbray. The name is said to come from a Gaelic word, which signifies a bold or steep coast rising abruptly from the sea; and this agrees perfectly with the natural appearance of the island, which presents steep and precipitous banks all round the coast. There is, indeed, a flat level space round the whole island, extending from the bottom of those banks to the water's edge, but the whole of this space has been, at one time or other, completely covered with the sea. This is evident from the fields of sand and beds of marl which it contains; and if so, its appearance then would exactly agree with what its name signifies. Its figure is very irregular. It extends about miles in length from north-east to south-west, about 2 miles in breadth, and from 10 to 11 miles in circumference, and contains upwards of 5120 square acres. The shore, which is, as already stated, flat and level for some considerable distance from the sea, is, in some places, sandy, as in Kames Bay, on the south-east of the island, and immediately adjoining the east end of the village of Millport; and in Fintry Bay on the west and north-west, extending along the beach for nearly a mile of pure sand; in some places, also, it is clayey and gravelly, but in most places it is rocky. Topographical Appearances.--There is a range of hills called the Shoughends, which run from south to north, extending nearly the whole length of the island in that direction....
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