Coll

(Col)

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Coll, a coast village in the parish and 6 miles NNE of the town of Stornoway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Rossshire. In a neighbouring cliff is a cave with two vaulted chambers, the entrance, 8 feet high and 14 wide; the interior, 15 high and 30 long; and the sides, so studded with mussels as, on a clear day, to reflect a variety of colours. A burn, the Coll or Amhuinn Chuil, formed by two head-streams, runs 2¼ miles south-eastward to Broad Bay, in the southern vicinity of the village.

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