150 BATH YM ETHICAL SURVEY OF 



LOCHS OF THE SLAINS BASIN. 



THE little Sand Loch, lying close to the sea near Kirktown of Slains, 

 was surveyed along with the other Aberdeenshire lochs. 



Sand Loch (see Plate LV.) is a small shallow basin situated amid flat 

 and uninteresting surroundings close to the seashore between Aberdeen 

 and Peterhead. It is a quarter of a mile in length, covers an area of about 

 10 acres, and contains barely a million cubic feet of water. The deepest 

 water is in the extreme north-eastern portion of the loch, where soundings 

 in 4 feet were taken, shallowing thence to the southward. The surface 

 temperature on July 15, 1905, was 67*1 Fahr. 



From the following table it will be seen that in the sixteen lochs 

 under consideration 879 soundings were taken, and that the aggregate 

 area of the water-surface is nearly 4\ square miles, so that the average 

 number of soundings per square mile of surface is 207. The aggregate 

 volume of water contained in the lochs is estimated at 5762 millions of 

 cubic feet. The area drained by these lochs is over 121 square miles, 

 or about 28 \ times the area of the lochs. 



