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TAY, LOCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 466 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TAY, LOCH

TAY, See also:
LOCH, HENRY BROUGHAM LOCH, 1ST BARON (1827-1900)
LOCH , the largest See also:

lake in See also:

PERTHSHIRE

Perthshire, See also:

Scotland. It is situated about the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county and has a flattened See also:

OGEE (probably an English corruption of Fr. ogive, a diagonal groin rib, being a moulding commonly employed; equivalents in other languages are Lat. cyma-reversa, Ital. gola, Fr. cymaise, Ger. Kehlleisten)

ogee See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, with a See also:

general trend from N.E. to S.W. It is 141 M. See also:

long from See also:

KILLIN

Killin at the See also:

head to See also:

KENMORE

Kenmore at the See also:

FOOT

foot, from 1 m. to fully 1 m. wide. The maximum See also:

DEPTH

depth is Sob ft., the mean depth 200 ft. The lake lies 355 ft. above the See also:

sea, covers an See also:

AREA

area of 6550 acres, or over ro sq. m., and has a drainage See also:

basin of 232 sq. m., including the overflow from Lochs Dochart and Tubhair. It receives at Killin the See also:

rivers Lochay and Dochart and discharges by the Tay at Kenmore. See also:

BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben Lawers (3984 ft.) rises near the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank. There are piers at Killin, Ardeonaig, Lawers, Fernan and Kenmore, at which the steamers See also:

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

call during the tourist See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season; ferries at Ardeonaig and Lawers; and a coaching road on the left See also:

SHORE

shore and a somewhat longer and more hilly road on the right. At the foot of the lake is an See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island containing the ruins of the priory which was founded in 1121 by See also:

Alexander I. in memory of his wife Sibylla, daughter of See also:

Henry I. She was buried here. Loch Tay enjoys See also:

GREAT

great repute for its See also:

salmon-fishing.

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