Eishart, a sea-loch in the S of the Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, separating the Strathaird peninsula from the upper part of the peninsula of Sleat. It opens at right angles to the mouth of Loch Slapin, and, striking 6½ miles east-north-eastward, diminishing gradually from a width of 2½ miles to a near point, and terminates at an isthmus 3 ¼ miles broad from the head of Loch Indal. 'There is not,' says Alexander Smith, 'a prettier sheet of water in the whole world. Everything about is wild, beautiful, and lovely. Yon drink a strange unfamiliar air; yon seem to be sailing out of the 19th century away back into the 9th.'
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