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871); _Essay on Self-Culture_ (1874); _Horae Hellenicae_ (1874); _The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands_ (1876); _The Natural History of Atheism_ (1877); _The Wise Men of Greece_ (1877); _Lay Sermons_ (1881); _Altavona_ (1882); _The Wisdom of Goethe_ (1883); _The Scottish Highlanders and the Land Laws_ (1885); _Life of Burns_ (1888); _Scottish Song_ (1889); _Essays on Subjects of Moral and Social Interest_ (1890); _Christianity and the Ideal of Humanity_ (1893). Amongst his political writings may be mentioned a pamphlet _On Democracy_ (1867), _On Forms of Government_ (1867), and _Political Tracts_ (1868). See Anna M. Stoddart, _John Stuart Blackie_ (1895); A. Stodart-Walker, _Selected Poems of J.S. Blackie_, with an appreciation (1896); Howard Angus Kennedy, _Professor Blackie_ (1895). BLACK ISLE, THE, a district in the east of the county of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, bounded N. by Cromarty Firth, E. by Moray Firth, S. by Inner Moray Firth (or Firth of Inverness) and Beauly Firth, and W. by the river Conon and the parish of Urray. It is a diamond-shaped peninsula jutting out from the mainland in a north-easterly direction, the longer axis, from Muir of Ord station to the South Sutor at the entrance to Cromarty Firth, measuring 20 m., and the shorter, from Ferryton Point to Craigton-Point, due north and south, 12 m., and it has a coastline of 52 m. Originally called Ardmeanach (Gaelic _ard_, height; _manaich_, monk, "the monk's height," from an old religious house on the finely-wooded ridge of Mulbuie), it derived its customary name from the fact that, since snow does not lie in winter, the promontory looks black while the surrounding country is white. Within its limits are comprised the parishes of Urquhart and Logie Wester, Killearnan, Knockbain (Gaelic _cnoc_, hill; _ban_, white), Avoch (pron. Auch), Rosemarkie, Resolis (Gaelic _rudha_ or _ros soluis_, "cape of the light") or Kirkmichael and Cromarty. The Black Isle branch of the Highland railway runs from Muir of Ord to Fortrose; steamers connect Cromarty with Invergordon and Inverness, and Fortrose with Inverness; and there are ferries, on the southern coast, at North Kessock (for Inverness) and Chanonry (for Fort George), and, on the northern coast, at Alcaig (for Dingwall), Newhallpoint (for Invergordon), and Cromarty (for Nigg). The principal towns are Cromarty and Fortrose. Rosehaugh, near Avoch, belonged to Sir George Mackenzie,
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