Loch Finn, a lake that in the season produces incredible shoals of herrings, divides Argyll from a promontory, which, for about 30 miles together, growing by little and little into a sharp point, thrusts itself with such a seeming earnestness towards Ireland (separated from it by a narrow strait of scarce 13 miles) as if it would call it over to it. Ptolemy names this the promontory of the Epidii; between which name, and the islands Ebudae (opposite to it) methinks there is some affinity. It is now called in Irish, (which language they use in all this tract) Ceann Tír, that is the land's head. 'Tis inhabited by the family of MacConell, very powerful here; but yet at the command of the Earl of Argyll, they sometimes in their vessels make excursions for booty into Ireland, and have possessed themselves of those little provinces, they call Glines and Rowte. This promontory lieth close to Knapdale, by so small a neck of land (being scarce a mile over, and sandy too) that the seamen by a short cut (as it were) transport their vessels over land from the ocean to Loch Finn. Which a man would sooner believe than that the Argonauts laid their Argos upon their shoulders, and carried it along with them 500 miles .

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