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Tay (LOCH a lake in Perthshire)

LOCH, a lake in Perthshire, Scotland, 355 feet above sea-level, and extending 14½ miles N. E. from Killin to Kenmore, 1/2 to 1½ miles broad, 15 to 100 fathoms deep, and covering 6,550 acres. It is a magnificent Highland lake, flanked on the N. W. by Ben Lawers (4,004 feet), and containing near its foot a wooded islet, with a fragment of an Augustinian priory, founded in 1122 by Alexander I., who here buried his queen, Sibylla. In September, 1842, Queen Victoria was rowed up Loch Tay, on which a steamer was first launched in 1883, and a railway to which, at Killin, was opened in 1886. Greece,