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Loch Ashie in Proc. Boy. 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. 



Fig. 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 



