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Loch-Tay makes three bold windings, has steep but sloping 

 shores, cultivated in many parts, and bounded by vast hills. 



Loch- Ran noch is broad and strait, has more wildness about it, 

 with a large natural pine wood on its southern banks. 



Loch-Tnmel is narrow, confined by the sloping sides of steep 

 hills, and has on its western limits, a flat, rich, wooded country, 

 watered by a most serpentine stream. 



The Loch of Spinie is almost on a flat, and its sides much in. 

 dented. 



Loch-Moy is small, and has soft features on its banks, amidst 

 rude environs. 



Loch-Ness is strait and narrow : its shores abound witli a wild 

 magnificence, lofty, precipitous and wooded, and has all the great- 

 ness'ofan Alpine lake. 



Loch.Oich has lofty mountains at a small distance from its bor- 

 ders ; the shores indented, and the water decorated with isles. 



Loch-Loch wants the isles ; its shores slope, and several straiths 

 terminate on its banks. 



Loch- Aw is long and waving : its little isles tufted with trees, 

 and just appearing above the water, its two great feeds of water at 

 each extremity, and its singular lateral discharge near one of them, 

 sufficiently mark this great lake. 



Loch. Lomond, the last the most beautiful of the Caledonian 

 lakes. The first view of it from Tarbat presents an extensive ser- 

 pentine winding amidst lofty hills: on the north, barren, black 

 and rocky, which darken with their shade that contracted part of 

 the water. Near this gloomy tract, beneath craig Roston, was 

 the principal seat of the M'Gregors, a murderous clan, infamous 

 for excesses of all kinds; at length, for a horrible massacre of the 

 Colquhouns, or Cahouns, were [proscribed, and hunted down like 

 wild beasts ; their very name suppressed by act of council ; so 

 that the remnant, now dispersed like Jews, dare not even sign it to 

 any deed. Their posterity are still said to be distinguished among 

 the clans in which they have incorporated themselves, not only by 

 the redness of their hair, but by their still retaining the mischievous 

 dispositions of their ancestors. 



On the west side, the mountains are clothed near the bottoms 

 with woods of oak quite to the water edge ; their summits Iofty 7 

 naked and craggy. 



