Talisker
The garden is sheltered by firs, or pines, which grow there so prosperously, that some, which the present inhabitant planted, are very high and thick.Boswell’s own Journal confirms Johnson’s description in its physical essentials, but concludes more charitably that “Talisker is a better place than one commonly finds in Sky”.These heterogebeous sedimentary rocks include debris flow (?lahars), alluvial fan and fluviolacustrine facies volcanoclastic deposits accumulated with a substantial and long-lived valley drainage system which developed upon the Glen Oraid Lava Formation surface.Subsequently this topography was inundated by two thick (at least 120 m or 390 ft) intracanvon flows of compositionally distinctive tholeiitic basalt belonging to the Talisker Lava Formation.These flows mark a significant change in the chemical signature of the lava sequence and have a strong compositional affinity with the various intrusive units of the Cuillin Centre.… the Preshal More flows may represent the only remnants of an originally significant lava shield that developed above the Cuillin centre.NatureScot has designated Talisker as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[6] Sorley Maclean's poem Tràighean (from Dàin do Eimhir) begins with a powerful evocation of the physical features of Talisker:[7] Nan robh sinn an Talasgar air an tràigh far a bheil am beul mòr bàn a' fosgladh eadar dà ghiall chruaidh, Rubha nan Clach 's am Bioda Ruadh, sheasainn-sa ri taobh na mara ag ùrachadh gaoil 'nam anam fhad ‘s a bhiodh an cuan a'lìonadh camas Thalasgair gu sìorraidh: sheasainn an siud air lom na tràghad gu 'n cromadh Priseal a cheann àigich.
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