SUMMER-ISLES, islands, in the parish of LocnBuooM,
county of Cromarty. These are a group of small
islands lying off the coast of Cromarty, at the entrance
of Loch Broom, and about eleven miles north-westward
of Ullapool. It is not known from what circumstance
they have obtained their name, " for though called
Summer Isles, they have," Doctor Macculloch observes,
"a most wintry aspect, as much from their barrenness,
as from their rocky outlines and the disagreeable red
colour and forms of the cliffs." The principal isles are
Tanara-Bcg and Tanara-Morc, which see: they are
favourably situated as fishing-stations.