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"Laich" To linger; to delay - low in situation
a hollow - Jameison

[Quotation concerning all three entries:]
"The course of the Ericht, for nearly the space of 2 miles, lies
through a deep chasm or ravine, the sides of which are of
great height consisting in some places of perpendicular precipices
rising sheer 300 feet from the bed of the river. One of the most
remarkable of these precipices is to be seen on the west or Blairgowrie
side of the river and is called Craiglaich or "the Eagle's Craig" (not known by
the latter name). It is a huge rock about 300 feet in height, presenting
a vast gray front, so uniform as to resemble a work of masonry. In this
rock at the base, there is a cave or fissure, which seems to have been formed by
the violent breaking off and detaching of huge masses from the solid rock. It is low in
the roof, and extends only about 30ft. underneath the rock. Upon an angle of the rock,
and on the very verge of the precipice, are still to be traced the ruins of a circular tower,
once of great height and strength, still known by the name of Lady Lindsay's Castle,
in which some centuries ago (so runs the legend) a daughter of the noble house of
Crawford was confined for life in obedience to a fiat of the Pope, to expiate, by
a dreary penance, some deep and deadly sin which she had committed."
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