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Updated: September 19, 2025
The bed stood upon the bare earth, which a long course of rain had softened to a puddle. Works, ix. 98. Inchkenneth is a most beautiful little islet, of the most verdant green, while all the neighbouring shore of Greban, as well as the large islands of Colinsay and Ulva, are as black as heath and moss can make them. But Ulva has a good anchorage, and Inchkenneth is surrounded by shoals.
And this is what I am thinking of now: when the light comes, and the seas are smooth, then which of you oh, which of you all will tell this tale to the two women at Castle Dare. So fair shines the morning sun on the white sands of Iona! The three days' gale is over. Behold, how Ulva Ulva the green-shored the Ool-a-va that the sailors love is laughing out again to the clear skies!
It was Ulva calling now, and Fladda answering from over the black water; and the Dutchman is surely awake at last! There came a stirring of wind from the east, and the sea began to moan. Surely the poor fugitives must have reached the shore now.
That great range of purple mountains was Ulva Ulva transfigured and become Alpine!
The rocky shores of Ulva lay on one side of this broad and winding channel, the flatter shores of Mull on the other, and between lay a perfect mirror of water, in which everything was so accurately reflected that it was quite impossible to define the line at which the water and the land met.
M'Quarrie insisted that the mercheta mulierum, mentioned in our old charters, did really mean the privilege which a lord of a manor, or a baron, had, to have the first night of all his vassals' wives. I suppose, Ulva is the only place where this custom remains.
See ulva labyrinthi-formis Lin. Spec. Plant. The air contained in these cells was found by Dr. Priestley to be sometimes purer than common air, and sometimes less pure; the air-bladders of fish seem to be similar organs, and serve to render them buoyant in the water.
In walking across the island to Loch na Keal, we passed through a most picturesque camp, that would have delighted Landseer. There were hundreds of horses and innumerable dogs of the picturesque northern breeds. It was the half-yearly market of Mull. I shall never forget my first sight of Ulva, as we sat on the shore of Mull waiting for the ferry-boat.
Ulva was visible, to be sure, and Colonsay both of them a heavy and gloomy purple; and nearer at hand the rock of Errisker showed in a wan, gray light between the lowering sky and the squally sea; but Lunga, and Fladda, and Staffa, and Iona, and even the long promontory of the Ross of Mull, were all hidden away behind the driving mists of rain. "Oh you lazy people!"
Of all marine plants, the Ulva latissima, or Sea-Lettuce, is first and best. It has broad, light-green fronds, and is hardy and a rapid grower, and hence a good giver of oxygen. Next to this in looks and usefulness comes the Enteromorpha compressa, a delicate, grass-like Alga. After a while the Chondrus crispus, or common Carrageen Moss, may be chosen and added.
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