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There arc many fertile plains, and rivers abounding with fish, and sometimes the Mytilusnuiryaritifora found here contains pearls of considerable value.
Tobermory, in the Isle of Mull , is a considerable port, with a pier continuing eastwardsfor 300 feet, or a little beyond low water mark. The British Society for the Encouragement
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TOBERMORY HARBOUR.
of the Fisheries have an establishment here ; the bay is well sheltered from the ocean by thesmall Isle of Calve, and it is situated in the track of the shipping which pass from the southnorthwards.
Tarbct is situated on a small isthmus in the sound of Islay ; the strait or sound of Jurais a large and deep gulf, extending along the western coast of a tongue of land, 60 milesin length, which the canal of Crenan divides from the county of Argyle; this canal,
EAST TARBET.
f) miles i>i length, enables vessels to avoid a very dangerous navigation ; the coasting vesselspass through the peninsula of Cantyre to the extremity of Loch Fine, and then by the canalof Crenan.
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