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BATHYMETRICAL SUKVEY OP 



LOCHS OF THE LOSSIE BASIN. 



WITHIN this basin (see Index Map, Fig. 19) the only loch surveyed was 

 the little Loch Spynie, lying between Elgin and Lossiemouth, which drains 

 into the Moray firth at Lossiemouth, not by the river Lossie, but by the 

 Spynie canal. 



English Miles 



Barth olomew. 



O 5 IO 15 20 



FIG. 19. INDEX MAP OF THE LOSSIE, FINDHORN, AND NAIRN BASINS. 



Loch Spynie (see Plate LV.) is said to have been reclaimed from the sea 

 in 1860, but it now stands about 5 feet above the sea-level, and the water is 



