Arran, largest island in the Firth of Clyde, in Buteshire; a mountainous island, highest summit Goatfell, 2866 ft, with a margin of lowland round the coast; nearly all the property of the Duke of Hamilton, whose seat is Brodick Castle.
Population (circa 1900) given as 4,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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