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LOCH LONG Loch Long
Loch Long
Loch Long
Loch Long
Fullarton's Gazetteer
New Statl [Statistical] Account
Irving's History
County Map
016 "A belt of marine water, a long northward ramification of the frith of Clyde, extending between the district of Cowal, in Argylshire, and the parishes of Roseneath, Row, and Arrochar in Dumbartonshire. Over the whole of its length, it prevailing looks almost right along all the lower parts of the frith, and if it were but the inlet of a considerable river, would, as to both extent and direction possess far the highest claim to be regarded as the upper frith. It opens from the Clyde nearly opposite Gourock, and with a breadth of from 2 miles to 6 furlongs, stretches about 22 miles into the interior, at quarter distance from its entrance, it opens, on the west side, into the fine small bay of Ardintenny, and at half distance it sends off on the same side, and in a north westerly direction, Loch Goil. At two points on the Dumbartonshire side, it is distant respectively from the head of the Gareloch only 1¼ mile, and from Tarbet on Loch Lomond only 1¾ mile. Its general depth is from 15 to 20 fathoms, and its tidal current runs at the rate of about 2 miles in the hour. It is occasionally lined by a sandy beach, or pressed by hanging plains and banks of verdure, but in general is hemmed in, by declivitous or mural rocks. During summer two steamboats ply every lawful day from Glasgow up Loch Long, the one to Arrochar and the other to the head of Loch Goil, and during winter they ply three times a week." (Fullarton's Gazetteer)

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