WATER CATCHMENT AREAS IN SCOTLAND 283 
Loch Ashie in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. vol. 25, pt. 2, p. 1009, 
Fig. 73 (1906), says that the country on the east side is 
bleak, dreary moor, but on the west side the shores were 
then clothed with coniferous forest. 
Kingussie is reported in Journ. Board of Agriculture, xi. 
472 (1904), to own a catchment area of 300 acres, hill 
pasture, at 1500 feet elevation. Information about this 
water supply has not been obtainable. 
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Fic. 47.—Inverness, Ross, and Aberdeen Catchment Areas. 
Tain obtains its water supply from a gathering ground 
of 3000 acres, between 400 and 800 feet elevation, in the 
Glen of Scotsburn and Hill of Tain, ‘There is one house 
on the area, of which 210 acres are owned by the Burgh. 
The water is not filtered, and no precautions against 
contamination of the gathering ground are considered 
necessary. 
Fraserburgh has two catchment areas, The Ardlaw 
area, 280 acres at 100 to 150 feet elevation, collects 
underground water from a gravelly subsoil at a depth of 
