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Seil island in on the east side of the Firth of Lorn to the south west of Oban. Seil Sound sits between the island and the mainland and is crossed by Clachan Bridge. Clachan Bridge is more popularly known as the Bridge Over The Atlantic. The original design for the bridge, by John Stevenson of Oban, was for a two-arched bridge but this was modified to one arch when it was built by Robert Mylne in 1792.

M.E.M. Donaldson was born in 1876 and came to the Highlands around 1908. She travelled extensively around the North and West Highlands, writing and taking photographs. One of her favourite locations was the Ardnamurchan Peninsula and it was there she settled, at Sanna, in 1927.

Between 1912 and 1949 Miss Donaldson produced many books on the social history and customs of the North and West Highlands. 'Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands' and 'Further Wanderings - Mainly in Argyll' are two of her best known works and both are illustrated with her own photographs. She died in a nursing home in Edinburgh in 1958, and was buried in Oban.

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