Shuna, a Hebridean island in Kilbrandon and Kilchattan parish, Argyllshire, lying 1 mile SW of the entrance of Loch Melfort, and separated from the mainland on the E by a sound 1 to 2 miles broad, from the island of Luing on the W by the Sound of Shuna, ½ to ¾ mile broad. Its length, from N to S, is 2½ miles; its greatest breadth is 1¼ mile; and its area is 1173½ acres, of which 571/7 are foreshore. The surface is all rolling, tumulated, and broken ground, whose tiny summits nowhere rise higher than 200 feet above sea-level. It possesses much of that intricate mixture of land and rock which, with the aid of wood and culture, abounds in mild soft pictures of rural beauty; it derives picturesqueness from its encincturement with intricate bands of sea, overhung by the lofty hardfeatured heights of island and mainland; and it has everywhere such a profuse and curious interspersion of natural woods, with rocks and cultivated fields and pasture lands, as to look, from end to end, like a large sea-girt park. Though topographically grouped with the Slate Islands, it possesses little or none of the clay-slate so prevalent in Luing and Seil, Easdale, Lunga, and Scarba; yet it presents interesting objects of study to a geologist, and at each end it has a bed of dark blue crystalline limestone, which has long been wrought for economical purposes. Shuna belongs to the City of Glasgow. Pop. (1861) 43, (1871) 15, (1881) 14.
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