tached, with fixty ihips, forne of his officers, who landed and dei
ftroyed all the country round Loch-Lomond*. Immediately beyond
the point of Strone the land is again divided by the Holy-Loch, m
Loch-Seant, extending Weft ward. On its Northern fhore is Kilmu
K, imvn. once the feat of a collegiate church, founded by Sir Duncan CamptA
in 1442, and fince that time the burial-place of the houfe of Argk.
Steer South, conveyed rather by the force of the tide that
wind: the channel ftrait, and fo narrow as. to make every objtj
diftinft. On the Eaftern fhore is the fquare tower of Leven, and;
a little farther projefts the point of Cloch. Almoft oppofite, on tl(
C a s t l e o f Weftern fide, are the ruins of the caftle of Dunoon: this fornei
D u n o o n , . ■ .
was pofiefted by the Englijh in 1334, but. was taken- in behalf of
David Bruce, by Sir Colin Campbel, of Lochow, who put the ga
rifon to the fword : in reward he was made hereditary governor;
and. had the grant of certain lands towards its fupport.
The view down the Firth now. appears extremely great: tk
ihire o f Renfrew bounds one fide; the hills of Cowal, Hoping!
the water edge, , and varied with woods and' corn lands, grace tk
I sle s of cumray. other: in front are the greater and the lefler Cumrays, the M
once remarkable for its church, dedicated to St. Columba*, ano*'
prefent for the quarries o f beautiful free-ftone; the laft for®
abundance of rabbets : the ifle o f Bute, with its fertile ihore, 1®
oblique, and the Stupendous mountains o f Arran, fear at fo®
diftance far, far above.
* Univerfas villas in circuituLacus Lokulofrii vaflarunt. Tor/aus. hift. Orcal- lf|'|
• 4 Dean of the ifles, 6 .
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