Long, LOCH

Long, LOCH, a beautiful Scottish sea-loch, striking off from the Firth of Clyde, 17 miles north-north-eastward between the counties of Argyll and Dumbarton, and 3 furlongs to 2 miles broad. It sends off Loch Goil (q.v.); is flanked by steep and fantastic mountains, 2000 feet high; and at Arrochar, near its head, approaches to within $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile of Tarbet on Loch Lomond. A railway from Helensburgh to Fort-William, commenced in 1889, skirts its eastern shore. Since 1862 the loch has been defiled with the dredgings from the Clyde at the rate of 1,250,000 tons a year.