604 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



to quit their carriages, and walk near a mile, to * 

 moil gloomy and icquefhn\l \.illrv, ralk-'l (M ncroe, 

 bounded on e,\v h Iklc by mouiuains v. m to 



'} the Alps. 

 Th T thefe mountai: 



d cliffs and lummits in all man. 

 and the clouds Iwimming or. to amule 



and to improve mind. 



The traveller, having ' i fnjin thin folitary 



fpot, finds himfelf in view of Ix>ch Long, ;i 

 water lake, 10 miles in length, wlv.ch common: 

 with the Clyde, facing Grcenock. It ; 

 Lochfine in its breadth, and hath 7 fathoms v, 

 within half a mile of its head. 



This lake, and a fmall branch with which it com- 

 municates on the weft, called Loch Goyl, abounds 

 withfeals, falmon, white fifh and mackarel ; of the 

 :, from 3 to 50003*6 fometimes taken at one haul. 

 Tiide fiiheries afford plentiful fupplies to Greenock, 

 Paifley, and Glafgow, where they are fold at mode- 

 rate pn. 



reloch, 6 miles in length, lies on the eaft fide 

 of Loch Long, and abounds in falmon, though in- 

 ccfiantly perfecuted by a voracious fpecies of fifh 

 called pollacks, who are extreme!) prejudicial to the 

 falmon fifhing in the Clyde, and all the waters which 

 communicate with it. 



The fmall diftrict of improveable country round 

 the head of Loch Long abounds in planting, and 

 hath all the appearances of fkilful agriculture. 

 Here refides the chief of the Macfarlanes, of ve- 

 nerable age, though wore down with misfortunes. 

 This lake is the eaftern boundary of Argylefhi: 

 portion of which county, and of Perthfhire, includes 

 the whole route of the traveller, fmce his depar- 

 ture from the eaft coaftat Dundee. 



now enters Dunbartonfhire ; and at the diftance 

 of a mile, arrives at L.aii Tarbat, fuuated amidlt 

 natural woods, on an eminence, immediately a! 



Loch 



