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| OBAN (Continued) | [continued from page 1] "Oban, a parliamentary burgh, and thriving little town and sea-port, is situated in the "quoad civilia" parish of Kilmore, 25 miles South-east of Tobermory, 33 west-north-west of Inverary, 35 South-south-west of Fort William, 24 north of the west-end of the Crinan Canal, 92 north-west by north of Glasgow, and 136 west-north-west of Edinburgh. The site of the town is singularly happy, as to at once scenic interest, burghal comfort, and commercial influence. Its command of the Western islands, both in their finest groupings with landscape, and in nearly all their facilities for communicating with their principal marts and sources of supply. has occasioned the town to be called the "Charing Cross" of the Hebrides; its position midway between the Caledonian and Crinan Canals, its consequent power of powering the productions of the north and the south over most of the Hebrides, and of the interior of Argyllshire and its immediate and complete influence over all the chief marine highways of the west, and the most practicable paths of ingress to the interior, have rendered it the virtual capital of the Western Highlands". "A weekly market is allowed by Charter to be held on Friday; and four annual fairs, held respectevely in March, May, October and November". Fularton's Gazetteer |
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