BOWLING-BAY, a village, in the parish of Old-KiLPATRiCK,
county of Dumbarton, 5 miles (E. by S.)
from Dumbarton; containing \S'l inhabitants. It is
situated on the north bank of the Firth of Clyde, and
on the road which passes, close by the river, from
Glasgow to Dumbarton. The locality is very beautiful;
and immediately opposite, on the south side of the
Clyde, is Erskine House, the fine seat of Lord Blantyre.
At this village the Forth and Clyde canal terminates.
There is a ship-building yard, and belonging to the
canal company is a basin, for the enlargement of which
an act was passed in 1846. In the same year an act
was passed for the construction of a railway from
Glasgow, by Bowling-Bay, to Dumbarton, Loch Lomond,
and Helensburgh.