THE FRESH-WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. 
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13 millions of cubic feet. The basin of Loch Beag is simple, the sides 
gently sloping, the greatest depth, 29 feet, in the centre of the loch. 
The channel connecting Loch Beag with Loch Clunie varies in depth 
from 11 feet to 23 feet. 
Loch Clunie (see Plate XCIX.). — Loch Clunie (or Cluanie) is a 
large loch occupying Glen Clunie, which runs east and west, and is 
the source of the river Moriston. The lower end is about 16 miles 
distant from Invermoriston, on Loch Ness. The upper end is some 
13 miles from Shiel bridge, at the head of Loch Duich, on the west 
co?.st, but Loch Hourn is still nearer, only 10 miles as the crow flies. 
High mountains rise on both sides of the loch, those on the south 
reaching nearly 2500 feet, while on the north the highest peak, Sgurr 
nan Conbhairean, 2 miles distant, is 3632 feet in height. 
Loch Clunie is very narrow, miles in length, and its central line 
has a slight sigmoid curvature. The shore-line is very irregular, and 
the width varies greatly at different parts. Widest in the upper part, 
where the maximum breadth of half a mile occurs at two points, at the 
extreme west end, and IJ miles further east, whence the loch narrows 
greatly toward the east, till about a mile above the outflow the width 
is only one-fifteenth of a mile. Beyond this narrow part it expands 
into a distinct small basin nearly a quarter of a mile in breadth. The 
mean breadth of the entire loch is just about a quarter of a mile. The 
superficial area exceeds 1 square mile (about 704 acres), and the drainage 
area, which includes no other lochs except Lochs Beag and Lundie, is 32 
square miles. It is fed by the river Clunie and some large burns on the 
north shore, very little water entering on the south shore, except the 
surface drainage. The river Moriston flows out from the east end of 
the loch. Considering the volume of water, which amounts to 1533 
millions of cubic feet. Loch Clunie comes fourth in point of size in the 
Ness basin (including Loch Ness). In point of length it comes fifth, as 
Loch Mhor is about half a mile longer, though in volume about 400 
million cubic feet less, than Loch Clunie. 
The level of Loch Clunie on September 29, 1903, was 605*2 feet 
above the sea; the Ordnance Survey officers on October 5, 1867, found 
the level to be 605*9 feet. The water might rise 4 feet above the level 
on the date of the survey. Above the narrows, 1 mile from the east 
end of the loch, which cut off a small basin exceeding 50 feet in depth, 
the basin of Loch Clunie is a simple one. The 25-feet contour closely 
follows the shore-line, and the 50-feet contour is nearly parallel to it, 
but much closer on the north, where the slope is steeper. The 100-feet 
contour is parallel with the others, and encloses a relatively large area, 
nearly miles long by a quarter of a mile in greatest breadth. It is 
broken into two parts by an unimportant shallowing of 98 feet. The 
smaller western portion has a maximum depth of 119 feet; the greater 
