Galloway, MULL OF

Galloway, MULL OF, a bold headland of precipitous rock, the southern extremity of the peninsula called the Rhinns of Galloway, in Wigtownshire, and the most southern point of Scotland. It is $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{4\}$ mile long, and $\backslash frac\{1\}\{4\}$ of a mile broad, and rises to a height of 210 feet at its eastern extremity, on which stands a lighthouse 60 feet high, whose intermittent light is visible at a distance of 23 nautical miles. The summit of the lighthouse commands a magnificent prospect of sea and sky, extending to the Isle of Man, 23 miles to the south, to the coast of Ireland, 26 miles to the west, and sometimes even to the Cumbrian mountains, more than 50 miles distant. The Mull is part of the parish of Kirkmaiden, and is 5 miles from Drumore and 23 south of Stranraer.