THE FRESH- WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. 
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LOCHS OF THE MONIKIE BASIN. 
Within the area drained by the Mouikie'burn (see Index Map, Fig. 16), 
which flows into the North sea at Carnoustie, are two (or rather three) 
reservoirs used for the supply of water to Dundee, that were sounded by 
the Lake Survey, viz. Monikie reservoirs and Crombie Den reservoir, 
situated 7 or 8 miles south-east of Forfar, and about 4 miles north-west of 
Carnoustie, at an elevation of nearly 500 feet above the sea. 
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FIG. 16. — INDEX MAP OF THE MONIKIE AND LUNAN BASINS. 
Monihie Reservoirs (see Plate L.).— The two reservoirs together re- 
semble the capital letter B in outline, and when full they stand at the 
same level, but on the date of the survey (October 13, 1904) there was a 
ditference in level of nearly 2 feet, the elevation of the south pond being 
476'6 feet, and of the north pond 474*8 feet, above the sea. The dear- 
water basin could not be sounded, as it was under repair ; it has a flat 
