Auchinchew, a romantic vale in the S of Arran, Buteshire, descending 2 miles southward to the Sound of Pladda, 7 miles S of Lamlash. It begins at the base of Cnoc na Garbad (959 feet), a hill commanding an extensive view, and supposed to have been a watch-post of the Dalriadans, and it expands into a rocky amphitheatre, walled with lofty mural cliffs, ribbed with ravines, and streaked with leaping rills. Essiemore waterfall is the chief one of the cascades; makes a sheer leap of about 100 feet; is sometime overarched by a brilliant rainbow; and serves, to a distance of some miles, as a landmark to mariners.
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