THE FRESH-WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. 
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THE LOCHS OF NORTH UIST. 
The extraordinary maze of land and water, which the map shows to constitute 
the greater eastern portion of the island of North Uist (see Index Map, Fig. 
22), cannot he fully appreciated when one is among the lochs. Although 
this part of the land is very little above sea-level, the highest loch surveyed 
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standing at an altitude of only 35 feet, the undulations of the stretch of low 
moorland suffice to conceal most of the lochs, and rarely more than one or 
two are in sight at one time. An ascent of one of the considerable 
precipitous hills which rise close to the eastern shore (South Lee, 920 feet ; 
