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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ABERFOYLE , a See also:

VILLAGE

village and See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of See also:

PERTHSHIRE

Perthshire, See also:

Scotland, 341 M. N. by W. of See also:

GLASGOW

Glasgow by the See also:

North See also:

BRITISH

British railway. Pop. of parish (1901) 1052. The village is situated at the See also:

BASE

base of Craigmore (1271 ft. high) and on the Laggan, a See also:

head-See also:

WATER

water of the Forth. Since 1885, when the See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

Montrose constructed a road over the eastern See also:

SHOULDER (in O.E. sculder, cognate with Ger. Schulter, Dutch schouder, Swed. skuldra, &c; the root is unknown)

shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the See also:

TROSSACHS, THE (Gaelic, " the bristled country," a crude allusion to its physical features)

Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has be-come the alternative route to the Trossachs and See also:

LOCH, HENRY BROUGHAM LOCH, 1ST BARON (1827-1900)

Loch See also:

KATRINE, LOCH

Katrine. Loch Ard, about 2 M. W. of Aberfoyle, lies 105 ft. above the See also:

sea. It is 3 m. See also:

long (including the narrows at the See also:

east end) and 1 m. broad. Towards the See also:

west end is Eilean Gorm (the See also:

green isle), and near the north-western See also:

SHORE

shore are the falls of Ledard. Two m. N.W. is Loch Chon, 290 ft. above the sea, I4 m. long, and about 'z m. broad. It drains by the See also:

AVON

Avon Dhu to Loch Ard, which is drained in turn by the Laggan.

The See also:

SLATE (properly CLAY SLATE; in M. Eng. slat or sclat, from O. Fr. esclat, a small piece of wood used as a tile; esclater, to break into pieces, whence modern Fr. eclat, the root being seen also in Ger. schleissen, to split)

slate quarries on Craigmore are the only See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry in Aberfoyle.

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