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SULISKER, rocky isle, 13 leagues north-west of Butt of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
SULLAM, bay and hamlet in north of Mainland of Shetland. The bay is 8 miles long, but narrow, and strikes south-ward from Yell Sound, between Northmaven and Delting parishes. The hamlet lies on the bay, and has a post office under Lerwick.
SUMBURGH HEAD, bold lofty promontory at southern extremity of Shetland. It is crowned by a lighthouse with fixed light visible at the distance of 21 nautical miles.
SUMBURGH-ROOST, vexed and whirling collision of tidal currents, strong in even calm weather and terrible in storms, immediately south of Sumburgh Head.
SUMMERHILL, hamlet in New Machar parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office, with money order department, under Aberdeen, and 2 public schools with about 131 scholars. Pop. 204.
SUMMERHILL, place, with United Presbyterian church, in Ayton parish, Berwickshire.
SUMMER ISLANDS, group of about 30 islets at mouth of Lochbroom, Eoss-shire. All are bare, most are rocky, only about nine have pasture-ground, and only one is inhabited.
SUMMERLEE, section of Coatbridge town, Lanarkshire. It has a range of blast iron furnaces ; and the new patent blast was initiated here in 1873.
SUMMERSDALE, battlefield of 1529, with several tumuli, in south of Stenness parish, Orkney.
SUMMERSTON, station on Kelvin Valley Railway, on north-east verge of Lanarkshire, between Maryhill and Tor-ranee.
SUMMERVILLE, seat in Troqueer parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
SUNADALE, rivulet, running eastward to the sea in Saddell parish, Argyleshire.
SUNART, sea-loch and district in north of Argyleshire. The loch strikes from north end of Sound of Mull ; goes 14 miles eastward to within 5 miles of upper part of Loch Linnhe ; ranges in width from 3 miles at the mouth to 3 furlongs at the head ; looks mostly like a series of inland lakes ; and has shores and flanks exhibiting much Highland scenery. The district lies between Ardnamurchan-proper and Ardgour; is bounded on the south by upper part of Loch Sunart, on the north by Loch Shiel ; measures 12 miles by 6 ; and contains the village and mines of Strontian.
SUNDAYWELL, old tower, a retreat of the persecuted Covenanters, in west of Dunscore parish, Dumfriesshire.
SUNDERLAND, seat on the Tweed, 3 miles north of Selkirk.
SUNDERLAND, seat on west side of Lochinclaal, Islay Island, Argyleshire.
SUNDHOPE, burn, with fine cascades, in Castleton parish, Roxburghshire.
SUNDRUM, seat in Coylton parish, Ayrshire.
SUNIPOL, seat near Callioch Point, on north-west coast of Mull Island, Argyleshire.
SUNLAWS, seat on the Teviot, 3 miles south-by-west of Kelso, Roxburghshire.
SUNNYBANK, place, with quarries, 3 miles south-east of Dunfermline.
SUNNYBRAE, village in Middlebie pia-ish, Diimfriesshire.
SUNNYSIDE, seat in Liberton parish, Edinburghshire.
SUNNYSIDE, seat on steep bank of the Clyde, 1J mile north-west of Lanark.
SUNNYSIDE, place, with large recent lunatic asylum, 2J miles north-north-west of Montrose, Forfarshire.
SUSANNAH, lead mine adjacent to Leadhills, Lanarkshire.
SUTHERLAND, maritime county in extreme north-west of Scottish mainland. It is bounded on the north by the ljfruHP"illlli ; on the east by Caithness ; on the south-east by Dornoch Firth ; on the south by Ross and Cromarty ; on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Its length is 62 miles ; its breadth 49 miles ; its area 1886 square miles. The eastern boundary is a line of watershed nearly all hilly or mountainous ; and the southern one* is mostly the Kyle of Dornoch Firth and the river Oikell, and partly a chain of. lakes and streams westward to the Atlantic. The south-east coast has nearly all a belt of rich low ground from \ mile to 2 miles broad ; the north coast also includes portions of low seaboard ; but most of the north coast and all the west coast exhibit a series of bold headlands, deep bays, beetling cliffs, long sea-lochs, and salient promontories. Chief projections are Strathy Head, Whiten Head, Farout Head, Cape Wrath, and Rhustore ; and chief intersections are Kyle of Tongue, Loch Eriboll, Kyle of Durness, Loch Inchard, Loch Laxford, and Kyle-Scow. The interior has considerable aggregate of low ground in bottoms of glens, along lakes and streams, but lies mostly on a basis of averagely about 1500 feet above sea-level, and consists mainly of mountains with numerous summits at altitudes of from 2000 'to 3281 feet. The mountains have much diversity of both form and amassment ; they include one continuous watershed going sinuously through most of the centre ; and those in the middle and southern parts of the west have more sharpness of feature, more intricacy of arrangement, more spiriness and shatteredness, than are found in any other tract in the kingdom. Chief glens and streams are Halladale, Strathy, Naver, Melness, Hope, Assynt, Shin, Oikell, Evelix, Fleet, Brora, and Helmsdale ; and chief fresh-water lakes are Naver, Loyal, Hope, Stack, More, Assynt, Vattie, Shin, Fleet, and Brora. Principal rocks of economic value are marbles in the west, and oolitic and lias deposits in the east. Arable husbandry is very limited, but skil-ful ; pastoral husbandry has superseded the arable in much of the glens. Fisheries are extensive ; and manufactures are of very little note. An enormous proportion of the land is waste ; and a vigorous, extensive, costly enterprise for reclamation was begun by the Duke of Sutherland in 1874. The earldom of Sutherland, ranking as the premier earldom of Scotland, dates from about 1228 ; the dukedom of Sutherland, in peerage of the United Kingdom, dates from 1833 ; and both belong to the family of Leveson-Gower, with the seats of Dunrobin Castle and Tongue House within the county. The antiquities include Caledonian stone circles, Scandinavian forts, Pictish forts, mediaeval castles, and a restored cathedral. The only towns with each more than 1000 inhabitants are Helmsdale and Golspie ; the only villages with each more than 500 inhabitants are Dornoch, Brora, Embo, Portskerry, and Bonar ; and the first of these five villages is the capital. Real property in 1880-81, 97,749. Pop. in 1871, 24,317 ; in 1881, 23,365.
