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ARROCHAR, village and parish in north of Dumbartonshire. The village stands on east side, near head of Loch Long, 17i miles north of Helensburgh ; is a terminus of steam communication on the Upper Clyde, and a resort of tourists and summer visitors ; is engirt by very grand, striking scenery ; and has a post office, with money order department, under Dumbarton, an excellent hotel, an Established church of 1847, a Free church, and a public school with about 60 scholars. The parish contains also the village of Tarbet, and is about 15 miles long. Acres, 25,858. Real property in 1880-81, 5291. Pop. 517. The surface extends about 3 miles along Loch Long, and nearly 14 miles along Loch Lomond ; is bordered along all the west by Argyleshire, and all the north by Perthshire; displays rich, diversified High-land scenery, and is so full of mountain and moor as to comprise only about 400 acres of arable land.
