Cape Wrath, a pyramidal promontory of granite gneiss of unrivalled wildness and grandeur, forming the north-west extremity of Scotland and of Sutherland, 69 miles NW. of Lairg. It is 523 feet high, and on it is a lighthouse, built in 1828, and seen 27 miles off.
Cape Wrath
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 740
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