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Garroch Head, — 60 fathoms, midway between Garroch Head 
and Little C umbrae Light. 
Uillean — 60 fathoms, midway between Uillean Point and Tan 
Buoy. 
Imacher — 75 fathoms, midway between Imacher Point and 
Carradale, Kilbrennan Sound. 
Areverga — 70 fathoms, 1 mile W. of Areverga Point, Kilbrennan 
Sound. 
Inchmarnoch — 85 fathoms, midway between Inchmarnoch and 
Cock of Arran. 
Ardlamoni — 30 fathoms, midway between Ardlamont Point 
and Etterick Bay, Kyles of Bute. 
Skate Island — 104 fathoms, I mile W. of Skate Island, Loch 
Fyne. 
Otter (/.) — 30 fathoms, 1 mile W. of Otter Beacon, Loch 
Fyne. 
Loch Fyne. — Otter (//.), Otter (III.) — 1 and 2 miles respectively 
N.E. of Otter Beacon. The other stations in Loch Fyne 
are in mid-channel, opposite Gortan’s Point, Furnace 
Quarry, Pennimore, Strachur, Inveraray, D underave 
Castle, and Cuill. 
Plateau. — Sanda — A few miles to the E. of Sanda Island. 
Pladda — 1 mile S. of Pladda Island. 
Rhuad Point — \ mile off shore at Khuad Point. 
Ailsa — 1 mile N. of Ailsa Craig. 
Channel. — Mull of Cantijre — 70 fathoms, 2 miles S. of Mull of 
Cantyre Light. 
Deas Point — 35 fathoms, \ mile, 50 fathoms, 1 mile, S. of 
Leas Point. 
Maidens — 6J miles N.E. of Maidens Light. 
Oorsewell — 9 miles N.W. of Corsewell Light. 
N.B . — All the hearings given above, and the direction of wind in 
all the observations, are magnetic. 
The observations in the lochs to the north of the Clyde sea-area 
are for the most part limited to the spring and summer months, hut 
are very interesting for the purposes of comparison, as well as 
valuable in themselves. 
Many of the observations recorded in the following Tables were 
taken with the special object of detecting the effect of winds on the 
distribution of temperature in the waters of the lochs. It was 
