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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Tarbert
Britannica 11thTARBERT, a fishing village at the head of East Loch Tarbert, an arm of the sea on the west shore of the mouth of Loch Fyne, Aigyllshire, Scotland. Pop. (1901) 1697. The harbour, though it has a narrow entrance, is absolutely safe and can shelter the whole of t ...
Vol. 26, pp. 417-417
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Argyllshire
Britannica 11th... Fyne; and Kintyre or Cantyre, a long narrow peninsula (which, at the isthmus of Tarbert, is little more than i m. wide), the southernmost point of which is known as the Mull, the nearest part of Scotland to the coast of Ireland, only 13 m. distant. There are n ...
Vol. 2, pp. 486-488
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