Inveraray, Scotland

Inveraray lies on the southern shore of a bay, where the river Aray enters Loch Fyne, 40 miles north west of Glasgow. The town consists of one street running east and west, and a row of houses facing the bay. Near the church stands an obelisk in memory of the Campbells who were hanged, untried, for their share in the Argyll expedition of 1685 in connection with the duke of Monmouths rebellion.

The ancient market-cross, 8 ft. high, supposed to have been brought from lona in 1472, iS a beautiful specimen of the Scottish sculptured stones. The chief industry is the herring fishery, the herring of Loch Fyne being celebrated. The town originally stood on the north side of the bay, clustering round the ancient baronial hold, attributed to Sir Cohn Campbell of Lochow. the Singular, who flourished at the end of the f 4th century, but it was removed to its present site in the middle of the 18th century. Inveraray was erected site in the middle of the 18th century. Inveraray was erected into a burgh of barony in 1472; and Charles I., while a prisoner in Caiisbrooke Castle, raised it to a royal burgh in 1648. Much has been done for it by the ducal house of Argyll, whose seat, Inveraray Castle, is about 1 mile from the town.

This handsome square structure, built between 1744 and 1761 from designs by Robert Adam, consists of two storeys, with a round overtopping tower at each corner. Some fine tapestry and valuable relics were destroyed by fire in 1877, but the damage to the castle was repaired in 1880. The earls and dukes of Argyll were great planters of mainly larch, spruce. silver fir and New England pines, and their estates around Inveraray arc consequently among the most luxuriantly wooded in the Highlands. Duniquoich. a finely timbered conical hill about 900 ft. high, adjoins the castle on the north and is a picturesque landmark.

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