On the Geology of the Southern portion of the Peninsula of Cantyre, Argyllshire

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The peninsula of Cantyre forms one of the most anomalous features in the physical conformation of Scotland, whether we regard its geographical or geological peculiarities. The mountain ridges which give their character to other parts of the country have all, more or less, a direction from north-east to south-west. On the other hand, this peninsula runs nearly north and south from the Crinan Canal to the Mull, a distance of fifty-five miles, with an average breadth of only six to eight miles. It thus forms a narrow ridge of no great elevation, separating the Firth of Clyde from the open expanse of the Atlantic, whose waves during storms from the west heat with awful fury on its western shores. None of its mountains rise high, and in some places it is almost separated into several islands by low transverse valleys. Thus at Loch Tarbet the isthmus is only about a mile in breadth, and both there and at Campbeltown a depression of a few feet would convert it into several detached islands ; which was probably its condition at no very remote geological date. Although forming a portion of the Scottish Highlands, its termination lies further south than some parts of the north of England.

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