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depth. In close proximity a sounding of 22 feet was taken, surrounded 

 on all sides by deeper water. On approaching the central constriction, 

 in which the depth is only 2 feet, the water shoals gradually though 

 irregularly, and deepens again on proceeding towards the northern end, 



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FIG. 49. INDEX MAP OF THE NAVER, BOUGIE, KINLOCH, AND HOPE BASINS. 



where a maximum depth of 40 feet was observed about half a mile 

 from the upper end, and where there is a small area about one-third of 

 a mile in length exceeding 30 feet in depth. The following table 

 gives the areas between the contour-lines, and the percentages to the 

 total area of the loch, and shows that on the whole Loch na Meide is 



