Lomond.

Lomond. LOCH, the 'queen of Scottish lakes,' in Dumbarton and Stirling shires, lies 23 feet above sea-level, and is 22 miles long, $\backslash frac\{3\}\{4\}$ mile to 5 miles wide, 6 to 630 feet deep, and 27 sq. m. in area. It is studded with thirty wooded islands; receives the Endrick and six other principal streams; sends off the Leven 7 miles southward to the Clyde; contains trout, pike, and perch; is sometimes frozen over as far northward as Luss; and is engirt by hills and, towards its head, Highland mountains, the highest of which, Ben Lomond (q.v.), attains 3192 feet. In 1263 Norsemen launched their galleys on Loch Lomond, having drawn them across the narrow isthmus of Tarbet; on Inchcailloch stood of old a nunnery; and a cave is associated with both Bruce and Rob Roy.