496 THE FRESH-WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND 
Eai.aidh, na H-. — Shallow loch, mostly in alluvium, and separated from 
Loch More by a moraine and from Loch Stack by alluvium. It was 
formerly continuous with Loch Stack, but has been disconnected by 
a cone of alluvium. 
Earba, na H-. — Rock-basin in crystalline schists, now forming separate 
lakes owing to alluvial cones or deltas. The basin is U-shaped, and 
lies in a valley between high mountains. 
Earn.— Vol. IL Part L p. 138. 
EcK. — Valley rock-basin across the strike of the crystalline schists in the 
valley of the river Cur ; in reality a watershed rock-basin. The 
head of the lake is much silted up. 
Ederline, — Typical kettle-hole surrounded by high terraces of fluvio- 
glacial gravels and lake deposits. It probably lies in the continuation 
of the Loch Awe rock-basin, but has evidently been formed during 
the retreat of the great Loch Awe glacier, when a detached lobe 
of ice was left on the present site of the lake, round which the 
fluvio-glacial gravels were laid down (see Loch Aw<e). 
Edgelaw. — Artificial reservoir in valley cut out of drift and Lower 
Carboniferous strata. 
Eela Water. — Resting partly on drift and partly on rock composed of 
schists and granite. 
Eigheach. — Expansion of the river Gaur ; rock-basin in Rannoch Moor 
granite massif along line of the Loch Laidon shatter-belt. 
Eilde Mor. — Rock- basin in crystalline schists and Glencoe quartzite, 
along line of shatter-belt that determines the direction of Loch 
Leven on the one side and Loch Treig on the other. 
EiLEACH Mhic 'ille Riabhaich. — Small rock-basin in Lewisian Gneiss ; an 
expansion of the Little Gruinard river, which drains the Fionn Loch. 
EiLEiN, AN (Gairloch basin). — Rock-basin in Lewisian Gneiss and 
Torridon Sandstone. 
EiLEiN, AN (Spey basin). — Kettle-hole in fluvio-glacial deposits. 
EiLT. — Rock-basin in granulitic schists, containing three minor basins 
separated by rocky barriers. 
EioN Mhic Alastair. — Kettle-hole in fluvio-glacial deposits of 100-ft. 
raised beach. 
Eldrig. — Ponded by drift. 
Ericht. — Rock-basin in granulitic schists and granite along the line of 
the Loch Laidon shatter-belt. It occupies a valley open at both 
ends, which acted as one of the outlets for the ice from the Rannoch 
Moor cauldron. The basin is deepest where the hollow is most 
constricted, and ceases where it opens into the wider valley of Glen 
Truim. The barrier which separates the end of the loch from Glen 
Truim is moraine-covered. 
EssAN. — Ponded by drift, and resting "on limestone and schist, and 
situated practically on the watershed. 
EuN, NAN (N. Uist). — Rock-basin in Lewisian Gneiss. 
