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| LOCH DOON | Continued | [Continued from page 45] The E. [East] edge of the lake forms the boundary of Ayr and Kirkcudbright from the junction of Gallen Lane to the meeting of a stone wall within a mile of the Doon and from this point to the source of that river it divides the phs. [parishes] of Straiton and Dalmellington. "In 1823 several boats or canoes of Great antiquity were found sunk the lake near the island upon which Doon Castle stands. Three of them were raised, and two of them were afterwards sunk for preservation in a pool of water, a short way from the margin of the lake. They were each formed entirely from a single oak-tree hollowed out; and were shaped somewhat like a fishing-Coble. Supposed to have lain in the water between 800 and 900 years". With a solitary patch of stunted wood on its E. [East] bank the eye oppressed with illimitable tracts of bleak rocky moor land stretching far away from its S. [South] & W. [West] sides, and the prospect atempty checked by a chain of round unvaried hills running along its shore on the E. [East] side; in a word, entirely wanting in all those natural beauties which are almost always found crowded about the large lochs of Scotland the indestructable pile which sheds a halo round its water still nevertheless prove a source of unfading attraction to the tasteful tourist with whom we cannot class the angler for whose accommodation there are several boats on the loch during the fishing season. |
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