3-077-954 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Map of Loch Long with Loch Goil, showing where the dredgings of the Clyde are deposited, 1890. 'The figures denote the depth in fathoms...A renewed effort is being made to put a stop to the abominable and unnecessary practice long carried on by the Clyde Navigation Trustees - that of depositing in Loch Long immense quantities of foul and fetid substance, the dredgings of the neighbouring river, polluted by the sewage of the great city of Glasgow and other towns. Loch Long, with the Holy Loch near its outlet into the Firth of Clyde, opposite Gourock, and with Loch Goil, its western upper branch, surrounded by noble mountains, may be pronounced one of the most beautiful regions of the West Scottish Highlands, and is the most accessible to tourists...Loch Long, with the other waters belonging to it, was not created for a muck-hole of the town-dirt of Glasgow, but for the admiration and enjoyment of mankind, and is part of the ample variety of grand and lovely scenery in the British Islands...some residents on those shores have lately formed a committee to urge on her Majesty's Government, and perhaps to bring before Parliament, or to assert in a Court of Law, as may appear expedient, the complaint against this monstrous abuse'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.