Benmore, a mountain in the Kilmun portion of the united parish of Dunoon and Kilmun, Cowal, Argyllshire. Its abrupt summit is 1¾ mile W of Loch Eck, and has an altitude of 2433 feet above sea-level. Deep fissures cleave its sides; one of them shaped like a mighty corridor, with chambered recesses; another so formed as to make sharp reverberating echoes, like sounds from great sheets of copper; another so profound that a stone thrown into it takes about a minute to reach the bottom. Benmore House, 4 miles SE of the mountain's summit, on the verge of the Eachaig valley, is a very fine modern castellated mansion, with picture gallery and with beautiful grounds, that strikingly contrast with the mountain's alpine scenery.
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