THE FRESH- WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. 



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THE LOCHS OF BENBECULA. 



THE island of Benbecula (see Index Map, Fig. 21) is in its physical 

 features a continuation of the low moorland tract of the south-eastern por- 

 tion of North Uist, the whole surface forming in like manner a maze of 



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FIG. 21. INDEX MAP OP THE ISLAND OP BENBECULA. 



land and water. There is no part of the island of any extent without 

 lochs. Most of these lochs are insignificant in size, and, like the lochs of 

 North Uist, they are of irregular form, contain numerous islands, and many 

 of them are to an even greater extent dotted over with boulders. A 



