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LOMOND, LOCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOMOND, See also:LOCH , the largest and most beautiful of Scottish lakes, situated in the counties of See also:Stirling and See also:Dumbarton. It is about 23 M. See also:long; its width varies from 5 M. towards the See also:south end to 1 m. at the narrows to the See also:north of the Isle of the See also:Vow; its See also:area is 27 sq. m., and the greatest See also:depth 63o ft. It is only 23 ft. above the See also:sea, of which doubtless it was at one See also:time an See also:arm. It contains 30 islands, the largest of which is Inchmurrin, a See also:deer See also:park belonging to the See also:duke of See also:Montrose. Among other islands are See also:Inch Cailliach (the " See also:Island of See also:Women," from the fact that a nunnery once stood there), Inchfad (" Long Island "), Inchcruin (" See also:Round Island "), Inchtavannach (" Monks' Isle "), Inchconnachan (" Colquhoun's Isle "), Inchlonaig (" Isle of the Yews," where See also:Robert See also:Bruce caused yews to be planted to provide arms for his bowmen), Creinch, Torrinch and Clairinch (which gave the Buchanans their See also:war-cry). From the See also:west the loch receives the Inveruglas, the See also:Douglas, the Luss, the Finks and the Fruin. From Balloch in the south it sends off the See also:Leven to the See also:Clyde; from the See also:east it receives the Endrick, the See also:Blair, the Cashell and the Arklet; and from the north the Falloch. See also:Ben Lomond (3192 ft.), the ascent of which is made with See also:comparative ease from Rowardennan, dominates the landscape; but there are other majestic hills, particularly on thewest and north-west See also:banks. The See also:fish are sea-See also:trout, See also:lake-trout, See also:pike and See also:perch. See also:Part of the See also:shore is skirted by the West High-See also:land railway, opened in 1894, which has stations on the loch at Tarbet and Ardlui, and Balloch is the See also:terminus of the lines from Dumbarton and from Stirling via Buchlyvie. Steamers make the tour of the loch, starting from Balloch and calling at Balmaha, Luss, Rowardennan, Tarbet, Inversnaid and Ardlui. Luss has a considerable See also:population, and there is some See also:stone quarried near it.

INVERSNAID iS the point of arrival and departure for the See also:

Trossachs coaches, and here, too, there is a graceful See also:waterfall, fed by the Arklet from the loch of that name, 22 M. to the east, commemorated in See also:Wordsworth's poem of the " Highland Girl." Inversnaid was in the See also:heart of the See also:Macgregor See also:country, and the name of Rob See also:Roy is still given to his See also:cave on the loch See also:side a mile to the north and to his See also:prison 3 M. to the south. Inversnaid was the site of a fort built in 1713 to reduce the See also:clan to subjection. See also:Craig See also:Royston, a See also:tract lying between Inversnaid and Ben Lomond, was also associated with Rob Roy.

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