Glencoe

Glencoe, a valley in Argyleshire, Scotland, extending 10 miles easterly from Ballachulish on Loch Leven. The mountains on both sides of the glen rise almost perpendiculary, and are grotesque in form; and through the vale flows the Coe. The stream is celebrated as the "Cona" of Ossian; and the valley, as the scene of the massacre of the Macdonalds, has been vividly described by Macaulay (History of England, ch. xix.). In 1884 a monument was set up to mark the scene of the occurrence.