Ebook Memoirs of the Geological Survey Scotland

Considerably more than one half (about five eighths) of the area of this sheet is occupied by sea — the Firth of Clyde and its branches and the land amounts to only about 161 square miles. The land area belongs to three different counties, and consists Of no less than nine separate portions — seven of them being islands or parts of islands, and the other two belong to the mainland of Scotland.