Eilean Aigas

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Aigas or Eilean-Aigas, a rocky islet in Kilmorack parish, Inverness-shire, immediately above the Drhuin, 5½ miles SW of Beauly. It is encompassed by divergent and convergent branches of the river Beauly: it measures about ¾ mile in length, and fully 1¼ mile in circumfereuce: it has an oval outline, and rises abruptly to a height of about 100 feet above the water's level: it consists chiefly of conglomerate, and is covered with natural wood of birch and oak: it communicates with the mainland by a bridge: it was the retreat of Lord Lovat, after the denunciation of his clan by government in 1697: and it is now occupied by a handsome villa, which was the summer retreat of the late Sir Robert Peel. The roe used greatly to frequent it: the red-deer used occasionally to be found on it: and the wild turkey of America was introduced to it in 1842. A General Assembly's female school is designated of Aigas.

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