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with coarse white sand which is the result of the disintegration of the 
syenitic granite in which the loch is set. This sand is found chiefly 
on the eastern shores, in consequence of the erosive power of the 
waves caused by the prevailing westerly winds. The somewhat scanty 
vegetation is much more abundant on the western than on the eastern 
shores, saving that aquatic plants are much more plentiful in the long 
and narrow neck of water leading to the effluent on the east side 
than elsewhere in the loch. 
Loch Macaterick is about a mile south of the last-mentioned 
loch, and is about the same size ; the outline also is very irregular. 
This loch is almost cut in twain by two promontories which jut out 
from opposite sides of the shore near the middle. Like Loch Recar, 
it has a long, narrow effluent on the east side. There are also several 
small islands. The hill Macaterick rises boldly from the south shore ; 
similarly but less boldly Maccallum rises from the south of Loch 
Recar. In the shores, water, and vegetation this loch also resembles 
Loch Recar. 
Loch Slochy is half a mile south-west of Loch Recar. It is of some 
considerable area, but very shallow, and consequently almost entirely 
overgrown with associations of marsh plants, which spread over the 
adjoining boggy moor, so that in many places one has difficulty in 
discovering where the water ends and where the shore begins. This 
loch is well on the way towards the formation of another of those 
deep bogs with which the district already abounds. Phragmites 
communis and Equisetum limosum are the most abundant plants. 
Loch Ballochling is a small sheet of water having the same 
general features as Loch Recar. It illustrates well the difference 
between east and west shores caused by the prevailing westerly winds ; 
the west side has an abundance of plants, whilst the east side consists 
chiefly of sandy bays almost without vegetation. The most abundant 
plants at this loch are : — Carex rostrata, C. flliformis, Potamogeton 
polygonifolius, and Ranunciihis natans. 
Loch Goosie is about a mile west of the last-mentioned loch, 
and is similar to it in general features. Its dominant plants are 
Phragmites communis and Potamogeton polygonifolius ; the beautiful 
moss, Pterogonium gracile, was abundant on the dry rocks of the 
shore. 
Loch Brecbowie is about a mile north-west of the last-mentioned, 
and is at a greater elevation than any of the foregoing lochs. It is 
prettily situated amongst hills, in a pass leading from Loch Goosie 
to Loch Bradan. Waterhead Hill rises immediately from its east 
side. The margin is sinuous, and the very narrow zone of shore 
between the water and the moor is rocky, stony, or sandy ; its general 
features are otherwise similar to those of the preceding lochs. Carex 
