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TARBERT , a fishing See also:

VILLAGE

village at the See also:

head of See also:

East See also:

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

Loch Tarbert, an See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm of the See also:

sea on the See also:

west See also:

SHORE

shore of the mouth of Loch See also:

FYNE, LOCH

Fyne, See also:

ARGYLLSHIRE

Argyllshire, See also:

Scotland. Pop. (1901) 1697. The See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, though it has a narrow entrance, is absolutely safe and can shelter the whole of the Loch Fyne fishing See also:

FLEET

fleet. The See also:

PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier for the passenger steamers that See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call here is about in. from the village. The See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of the See also:

BAY

bay is rocky and the cliffs are fringed with See also:

young firs, the village itself being quite a See also:

PRETTY

pretty See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place. The See also:

HERRING (Clupea harengus, Haring in German, le hareng in French, sill in Swedish)

herring See also:

FISHERY (LAW OF)

fishery--including a large See also:

trade in curing—forms 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. The 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 See also:

church occupies a See also:

FINE

fine situation. Overlooking the harbour are the ruins of a See also:

castle built by See also:

Robert See also:

Bruce in 1326. The See also:

ISTHMUS (Gr.io0pbs, neck)

isthmus connecting the districts of Knapdale and Kintyre is little more than one mile wide, and boats used once to be dragged across to the head of West Loch Tarbert, a narrow sea loch nearly ten See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles See also:

long. A proposal to cut a See also:

canal across to shorten the See also:

SAIL

sail to See also:

ISLAY

Islay and See also:

Jura has never progressed further.

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