AND FORT WILLIAM. 4*3 



burg. Thit fine falt-watcr like communicates with 

 Loch Creran, Loch Levrn, and Loch Eil j all of 

 which are navigable for refleli of burden, to whom 

 they afford a fife retreat, wnen the violent gufts of 

 wind render the Linnhe navigation hazardous. 



The fifh peculiar to thele waters are herrings, 

 white fifh, falmon, trout, .ind j)hinocs, fuppofcd to be 

 the young of what the fiihermcn call the great trout, 

 fome of them weighing 30 pounds. The timber 

 is birch and pine. 



The propofed line of communication from Fort- 

 lliam to Invernefs lies in an caftern direction, 

 and is 53 miles in length. The firft branch of 

 which is the river Lochy, ifluing from the loch of 

 that name, at the diftancc of 7} miles. It is a con- 

 fidcrablc river, very rapid, and hath a fall of 80 

 feet. Loch Lochy is a beautiful iheet of water, 

 lOf miles long ; half a mile broad ; 30 fathom 

 where deeped, and never freezes. It abounds in 

 falmon, trout, and other fifh peculiar to frefh water 

 lochs : the banks are (haded with natural woods. 



At the diltance of a mile on the north fide of this 

 lake is Loch Arkck, nearly of the fame dimenfions 

 as the former, and whofc banks arc ihaded with very 

 extenfive woods of fir. 



Keeping due cad in thfc line to Invernefs, there is 

 i fpace of 2 miles without any river ; the foil gravel 

 ind earth. Thii may be called the canal of parti- 

 tion, being the higheft ground in the whole extent 

 of the valley between the two fcas, and rifes 22 feet 

 above Loch Oich, to which it is joined on the Cift. 

 Loch Oich is 4 miles long* a quarter of .1 mile 

 wide; of fufficient depth for the purpolc of naviga- 

 tion, and its furface is about 100 miles above high 

 water at neap tides. Its banks, and fome fmall iflands, 

 are beautir: woods. Here is alfo limcrtone 



fufHcient for the fupply of the whole country from 

 lea to lea, as loon as the navigation Hull be formed. 

 Near the head of Loch Ncvifh, on the wcrtcrn 

 D D 4 ocean, 



