Machrihanish Bay, a bay on the W coast of kintyre, Argyllshire. It is flanked on the N by Glenacardoch Point, 5 miles SSE of Cara island, on the S by Earadale Point, 6¾ miles N of the Mull of Kintyre; and the distance between these points is 135/8 miles. It nowhere, however, penetrates the land to an extent of more than 2¼ miles from the entrance line, and that at the mouth of Machrihanish Water, 4¾ miles W of Campbeltown; so that it lies all open to the W, and has an unindented and unsheltered coast.' The long crescent of Machrihanish,' to quote from the Life of Norman Macleod (1876),' girdled by sands wind-tossed into fantastic hillocks, receives the full weight of the Atlantic. Woe to the luckless vessel caught within those relentless jaws,' etc.-ord. sur., shs. 20, 12, 1876-72.
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