AWE, LOCH, the longest freshwater lake in Scotland, situ ated in mid-Argyllshire, I Oft. above the sea, with an area of nearly i6sq.m. It is 23m. long north-east to south-west from Kilchurn Castle to Ford, its breadth varying from one-third of a mile to 3m. at its upper end, where it takes the shape of a crescent, one arm of which runs towards Glen Orchy, the other to the point where the river Awe leaves the lake. The upper extremity is majes tic, the lower half tame. Inishail island, contains ruins of a church and convent.