tached, with fixty ihips, fome of his officers, who landed and del
ftroyed all the country round Loch-Lomond *. Immediately beyolf
the point o f Strone the land is again divided by the Holy-Loch, oi
Loch-Seant, extending Weftward. On its Northern ihore is KilniM
l m u n . once the feat of a collegiate church, founded by Sir Duncan CampM
in 1442, and fince that time the burial-place o f the houfe of Arg-M
Steer South, conveyed rather by the force of the tide tiiaij
wind: the channel ftrait, and io narrow as to make every objeia
diftinft. On the Eaftern Ihore is the fquare tower o f Leven, and
a little farther proje&s the point o f Clocb. Almoft oppofite, on tl
D u n o o n . Weftern fide, are the ruins of the caftle of Dunoon: this fortrl
was poffefied by the Fnglijh in 1334, but was taken in behalf jij
DavidBruce, by Sir Colin Campiel, of Lochow, who put the g i
rifon to the fword : in reward he was made hereditary govern*
and had the grant of certain lands towards its fupport.
The view down the Firth now appears extremely great: tha
ihire o f Renfrew bounds one fide; the hills of Cowal, floping |
the water edge, and varied with woods and corn lands, grace tlM
sofcumray. other: in front are the greater and the lefier Cumrays, the fiifl
once remarkable for its church, dedicated to St.Columba*, andM
prefent for the quarries o f beautiful free-ftone; the laft f o r tKa
abundance of rabbets : the ifle o f Bute, with its fertile ihore, lid
oblique, and the ftupendous mountains o f Arran, foar at foOT
diftance far, far above.
• Univerfas villas in circuitaLacus Lokulofrii vaftarunt. Torfaus, hiil. Oread.
■ f Deaa of the ifles, 6.
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