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vernefs: twenty-two miles long, and one broad, between 
Fort Auguftus and the Frith of Murray, into which its 
waters run. Its depth, iu the centre, is from fixty to a 
hundred and thirty fathoms; and even near its tides, ex¬ 
cepting at the points of Torr and Foyers, the declivity is 
ftich, that a fhip of the line might.fail in fafety within 
fifty yards of the fliore, from end to end, on either fide 
of the lake. Neither Loch Nets nor Lodi Catharine, is 
ever frozen beyond a few fathoms from the margin. 
This fad was long accounted wonderful, and attributed 
to fome peculiar quality of the water; but the water of 
Loch Nefs differs in no refpect from other frelli water; 
and the water of both lakes freezes as quickly as any other 
water when expofed in feparate veffels. The phenomenon 
of the lakes themfelves never being frozen over, is ealiiy 
and completely accounted for by the difcoveries of mo¬ 
dern chemiftry. Water, like molt other bodies, is expanded 
by beat, and condenfed, or contracted in volume, by cold ; 
but there is this peculiarity in the effects of heat or cold 
on water, that water is gradually condenfed by cold until 
it arrives within a few degrees of the freezing point, when 
it begins to be again gradually dilated ; and, when it 
readies the freezing point, it expands with violence. 
This being the cafe, water in very deep lakes'can never be 
frozen in Inch climates as ours. When the upper ftratum 
is condenfed in its progrels towards freezing, it becomes, 
of courle, fpecifically heavier than the ftrata below it, and 
finks down towards the bottom. What was the fecond 
ftratum now becomes the nppermoft, is condenfed in its 
turn, becomes fpecifically heavier, and finks down as the 
firlt funk. All the ftrata in the lake mult neceffarily go 
through the fame procefs, finking and riling alternately 
before congelation can take place; but where the water, 
as in Loch Nefs, is a hundred and thirty fathoms deep, 
the uppermoft ftrata receive their original temperature 
long before they reach the bottom, rife again in their turn, 
and, in fuch climates as ours, the procefs goes on for ever, 
and prevents aftual congelation. 
Loch Nefs is frequently agitated with great violence 
by the winds; and on fome occafions even without any 
apparent caufe. An event of this fort occurred in a molt 
extraordinary manner on the ill of November, 1755, the 
time of the great earthquake which nearly deltroyed Lif- 
bon : the water role with the utmoft impetuofity from ealt 
to welt, many of the waves being carried two hundred 
yards up the Oich, and breaking, on its banks, five feet 
above the level of the river: it continued in this ftate for 
nearly an hour, when the commotion ceafed, by a wave 
much larger than any that preceded it overflowing the 
north fliore of the lake. Lech Nefs communicates, by 
the river Nefs, with the Moray Frith, and forms part of 
the chain of lakes and rivers from that arm of the North 
Sea to the Sound of Mull on the weftern coaft. As the 
lakes are all navigable, and rife very little above the level 
of the fea, a canal was lately projected on this line. It is 
denominated the Caledonian Canal, and is now nearly 
completed, under the fcientific management of Mr. Tel¬ 
ford; and, as it is defigned to admit frigates of 32 guns, 
there is reafon to expeft that the Angular fpectacle will 
foon be exhibited, of large veffels crofting the Britilh 
iftand, from the Atlantic to the German ocean, furrounded 
by mountains which frequently tower to an enormous 
height. The fcenery of this lake is grand and magnifi¬ 
cent in the higheft degree, as the hills are well covered 
with wood, and fometimes flope gradually from the fliore, 
and at others rife with the utmoft boldnefs and irregula¬ 
rity. The Vale of Foyers, at its eaftern extremity, is not 
inferior in romantic beauty to the celebrated Dovedale of 
Derbyfhire. The river from which it derives its name forms 
two molt beautiful falls, one of them feventy and the 
ether two hundred and twelve feet in height. The latter 
is confequently among the loftieft in the world ; and. dur¬ 
ing floods, prefents a view at once grand and impreflive. 
■pennant's Tour in Scotland. Mifs Spence's Sketches. 
LOCH NEV'ISH, a bay on the weft coaft of Scotland s 
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twenty miles weft-north-weft of Fort William. Lat. 58, 
14. N. Ion. 5 9. W. 
LOCH NI'ET, a bay on the weft coaft of Scotland; 
twenty-four miles fouth of Cape Wrath. Lat. 58. 14.. N. 
Ion. 5. 9. W. 
LOCH OI'CH, a laKe of Scotland, in the county of 
Inv.em.efs, four miles long, and a quarter of a mile wide; 
communicates with Loch Nefs four miles fouth-weft of 
Fort Auguftus. 
LOCH OO'CHAN, a lake of Scotland, in the county 
of Invernefs: nine miles weft-north-weft of Geor°-e’s 
Town. 0 
LOCH ORR', a lake of Scotland, in the county of Fifes 
fix miles north-eaft of Dunfermline. 
LOCH OR ENT, a lake of Scotland, in the county of 
Caithnefs : fix miles fouth of Thurfo. 
LOCH PAAT'OCH, a lake of Scotland, in the county 
of Invernefs: twelve miles north of George’s Town. 
LOCH PAR'TIN, a bay on the ealt fide of the iftand 
of North Uift. Lat. 57. 35. N. Ion. 7. 8. W. 
LOCH PQTREE', a bay on the eaft coaft of the iftand 
of Skye. Lat. 57.23. N. Ion. 6. 6. W. 
LOCH PULTEE'L, a bay on the north-weft coaft of 
the iftand of Skye. Lat. 57. 29. N. Ion. 6. 43. W. 
LOCH QUICH', a lake of Scotland, in the county of 
Invernefs: iixteen miles north of Fort William. 
LOCH RAN'NOCH, a lake of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth, about eight miles in length, to the eaft qf 
George’s Town. 
LOCII RESO'RT, a bay of Scotland, on the weft coaft; 
of Lewis. Lat. 57. 57. N. Ion. 6. 57. W. 
LOCH RID'AN, a bay of Scotland, on the coaft of the 
county of Argyle, north of the iftand of Bute. 
LOCH RU'E, a bay on the weft coaft of Scotland: fix 
miles fouth of Afynt Point. Lat. 58. 8. N. Ion. 5. 13. W. 
LOCII RU'EVAL, a bay on the fouth-eaft coaft of the 
iftand of North Uift. Lat. 57. 30. N. Ion. 7. 8. W. 
LOCH RUT'T'ON, a lake of Scotland, in the county 
of Kirkcudbright: four miles fouth-eaft of Dumfries. 
LOCH RY'AN, a large bay on the weft coaft of Scotland, 
between the counties of Ayr and Wigton, north of Stran- 
rawer. Lat. 55. 7. N. Ion. of the entrance, 4. 59. W. 
LOCH SAR'K, a bay on the weft coaft of Scotland ; 
twenty-two miles fouth of Cape Wrath. Lat. 58. 16. N 
Ion. 5. 4. W. 
LOCH SCAV'IG, a bay on the fouth coaft of the Ille 
of Skye. Lat. 57. 8. N. Ion. 36. W. 
LOCH SCOU'RIE, a bay on the weft coaft of Scotland, 
feventeen miles fouth of Cape Wrath. Lat. 58. 22. N 
Ion. 5. 6. W. 
LOCH SE'AFORTH, a bay on the fouth-eaft coaft of 
the iftand of Lewis, ten miles in length : eighteen miles 
fouth-weft of Stornaway. Lat. 57. 55. N. Ion. 6. 38. W. 
LOCH SER'ESORT, a bay on the eaft coaft of Rum 
Iftand. Lat. 56. 58. N. Ion. '6. 19. W. 
LOCH SHELL', a bay on the eaft coaft of Lewis. 
Lat. 58. N. Ion. 6. 23. W. 
LOCH SHIE'LL, a bay of Scotland, between the coun¬ 
ties of Argyle and Invernefs, fixteen miles long, and one 
wide; has a communication with Loch Moydart: the 
north-eaft end lies ten miles north-weft of FoitfWilliam, 
and the mouth opens into Loch Moydart in lat. 56. 44. N. 
Ion. 5. 48. W. 
LOCH SHIE'LDAG, a bay of Scotland, on the fouth 
fide of Loch Terridon, in the county of Rofs: five miles 
fouth-eaft of Loch Achrakin. 
LOCH SHIN', a lake of Scotland, in the north part of 
the county of Sutherland, twelve miles long, and or.e and 
a half wide: thirteen miles weft-north-weirof Dornoch. 
LOCH SKE'NE, a lake of Scotland, in the county cf 
Aberdeen : five miles fouth of Kintore. 
LOCH SKI'ACH, a lake of Scotland, in the county cf 
Perth : fix miles north-weft or Dunkeld. 
LOCH SKY'PORT, a bay on the eaft coaft of South 
Uift. Lat. 57.18. N. Ion. 7. 12, W. 
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