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BATHYMETRICAL SURVEY OF 
11 J square miles, but since it receives the outflow from the Cam Loch 
and from Loch a’ Mhiotailt, its total drainage area is about 46J square 
miles — an area 50 times greater than that of the loch. Over 200 
soundings were taken, the maximum depth observed being 126 feet. 
The volume of water is estimated at 1,061,544,000 cubic feet (almost 
identical with the volume of the Cam Loch), and the mean depth at 
41 feet. The floor of Loch Veyatie is uneven, as is well shown in the 
sections on the map, with a few islands here and there along the shores, 
and some of the bays are filled with weeds. A continuous area exceeding 
25 feet in depth extends nearly from one end of the loch to the other. 
FIG. 31. LOCH VEYATIE, WITH SUILVEN IN THE DISTANCE. 
(Photograph by Rev. II. N. Bonar.) 
with an isolated sounding of 26 feet close to the south-eastern end off 
the promontory between the two inflowing streams, and with a small 
separate area having a maximum depth of 53 feet at the north-western 
end. Within the large 25-feet area the bottom undulates in such a 
manner as to form two 50-feet areas and three 100-feet areas. Of the 
two 50-feet areas, the smaller but deeper one lies off the entrance to 
Loch a Mhiotailt, and is three-quarters of a mile in length : it encloses 
the main 100-feet basin and the maximum depth of the loch (126 feet), 
which was observed about 220 yards from the northern shore. The 
larger 50-feet area lies in the south-eastern portion of the loch, and is 
