THE FRESH-WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. 
113 
LOCHS OF THE FLEET BASIN. 
The only loch to be dealt with here is Loch Fleet, which forms the 
source of the Little Water of Fleet, one of the tributaries of the Water of 
Fleet flowing into Fleet bay, a branch of Wigtown bay. Loch Whinyeon 
has been utilised to supply a mill at Gatehouse of Fleet, and its waters 
have been diverted from the Dee basin, to which it originally belonged, 
into the Fleet basin ; any overflow is into Tarff Water, a tributary of the 
river Dee, and it will be treated of in that basin. 
Loch Fleet (see Plate XLVI.). — Loch Fleet lies about a mile to the 
east of Loch Grennoch, over 2 miles to the west of Loch Skerrow, both 
belonging to the Dee basin, and 8 miles north of Gatehouse of Fleet. 
Hills rise steeply on all sides of the loch, except to the south-east, where 
the burn flows out. The loch trends from north-west to south-east, and 
is over one-third of a mile in length, with a maximum breadth across the 
upper end of a quarter of a mile, while its waters cover an area of about 
43 acres. The basin is simple, the contours approximating to the outline 
of the loch, and the maximum depth of 56 feet is centrally placed. The 
volume of water is estimated at 41 million cubic feet, and the mean depth 
at 22 feet. The loch was surveyed on July 24, 1903, when the elevation 
was 11 12*9 feet above the sea; the Ordnance Survey ofiScers found the 
elevation to be 1113*4 feet on September 1, 1894. The following 
temperatures were taken in the deepest part of the loch : — 
Surface 
10 feet 
25 „ 
60 „ 
60°*2 Fahr. 
59°-8 „ 
55°-6 „ 
53°-0 „ 
The range of temperature was 7°*2, the greatest fall, between 10 and 
25 feet, being 4°*2. 
I 
