Sanday

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Sanday, a small island in the Hebridean parish of Small Isles, Argyllshire, lying on the S side of the eastern extremity of Canna, of which it may be viewed as constituting a portion, the two being united at low water by a beach of shell sand. It extends 1¾ mile east-by-southward, has a maximum breadth of 5 furlongs and an area of 577²/₃ acres, and is distant 2¹/₈ miles from Rum. Its surface is low at the side towards Canna, but rises at its south-western extremity to 192 and at its eastern to 131 feet above sea-level, terminating in abrupt cliffs, which are skirted with detached high masses of rock. See Dun-na-Feulan. Pop. (1871) 58, (1 881) 62.

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