Airds, an estate in Appin, Argyllshire, with the seat of Rt. Macfie, Esq., 3 furlongs SE of Port-Appin village. The estate lies opposite the upper end of Lismore island, occupying a peninsula between Lochs Linnhe and Creran: and comprises 6700 acres valued at £2027 per annum. Dr Macculloch, speaking of the peninsula, says:-' I do not know a place where all the elements, often incongruous ones, of mountains, lakes, wood, rocks, castles, sea, shipping, and cultivation are so strangely intermixed, where they are so wildly picturesque, and where they produce a greater variety of the most singular and unexpected scenes. '
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