ATLANTIC AND LOCHFINE. 413 



A notion had long d in Scotland, that a 



fu be made between Lochfinc and the At- 

 lantic, at a village ;>ct, on the peninfula 

 of Cantire, where the neck of h:ul between 



:ly a mile in lenrch. With a view to ex- 

 nc into the practicability of fuch a work, I 

 many years ago, from Grecnock to the 

 *i but perceiving that this place did noc 

 fully unlwrr ir.y expectations, I hired a boat to 

 Loch Gilp, 14 miles nortf. .here, though 



then ur I, nature fccmcd to invite the public 



ntion, and by which above 20 miles of the cir- 

 cuitous navigation would be favcd, more than by a 

 cut at the 1 



Being fully convinced of the great utility of the 

 work, the fat :h which it might be com- 



plr i the preference to the propofcd canal at 



the to broach the fubjetf 



public, and t .n the client ial difference be- 



en thefc two fituatior. y having fmcc 



been made of both places, by authority, and being 

 vith a ; ;t, I repaired 



thither in 1784, and again went over the grounds, 

 with a more than ordinary attention to every object 

 : -thy of notice by , from which, 



1 as former obfervations, I am enabled 

 communicate the following particulars, mod of which 



! in the report. 



Loch Gilp Sept. 1784. A florm of wind 

 and rain, a'lords an opportunity of obferving 

 the fc :i in all kinds of wea- 



th The Glafgow packet of 18 tons, rides 



:h very little rolling at the d of half 



a mile on thr caft fide of the chanr-1. \ 

 good anchoring ground. A final 1 ifland lies about 



Tarbct in t!vc aguagr, fignifics 



narrow ira/t of land I- m is mo 1 / 



queoi in the HigKlanc* ia tome places two or more lakes 



;. early ui. 



a mile 



