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ARDNAMURCHAN, hamlet, headland, and district, Argyleshire, and parish, partly also in Inverness-shire. The ham-let lies on the coast, 7 miles by water north-north-west of Tobermory, and has a post office, with money order department, under Fort-William, a parochial church with 600 sittings, and a Free church. The headland faces the Atlantic with salient point, 4 miles north-west of the hamlet ; exhibits a broad, bold, rugged appearance ; forms the most westerly ground on main-land of Scotland ; and is crowned with a lighthouse showing a fixed light visible at the distance of 18 nautical miles. The district is a peninsula, extending eastward from the headland; measures about 16 miles in length and about 4J miles in mean breadth ; consists chiefly of very diversified hills, rising nowhere higher than 1759 feet ; and includes considerable skirts and inter-spersions of good arable land. The parish comprises also Sunart district in Argyleshire, and Moidart, Arasaig, and South Morar districts, together with Shona Island, in Inverness-shire. Its extreme length, by any road, is about 70 miles, its extreme breadth about 40 miles, Eeal property in 1880-81 of the Argyleshire part, 10,372; of the Inverness-shire part,9512. Pop. of the whole, quoad civilia, 4091 ; quoad sacra, 2234. There are 9 schools for 506 scholars, and 5 of them, for 249, are new.