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MAREE, LOCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 698 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAREE, See also:LOCH , a fresh-See also:water See also:lake in the See also:county of See also:Ross and See also:Cromarty, See also:Scotland. Its name—of which Maroy and Mourie are older variants—does not, as is often supposed, commemorate the Virgin, but St Maelrubha, who came from See also:Bangor in See also:Ireland in 671 and founded a monastery at Applecross and a See also:chapel (now in ruins) on Isle Maree. Trending in a See also:south-easterly to See also:north-See also:westerly direction, the lake has a length of 131 M. from Kinlochewe at the See also:head of the See also:dam erected in the 16th See also:century (or earlier) by the See also:iron-smelters of the Cheardach Ruardh, or Red Smiddy, on the See also:short but impetuous See also:river See also:Ewe by which it drains to the See also:sea. It lies at a height of 32 ft. above sea-level; the greatest breadth is just over 2 M. at Slattadale, the mean breadth being 196 of a mile; and the greatest See also:depth, 367 ft., occurs in the upper See also:basin, the mean depth being 125 ft. Its See also:waters See also:cover an See also:area of fully II sq. m., and its islands nearly I sq. m., while the drainage area is 171 sq. m. A remarkable feature is the large number (more than 30) and considerable area of the islands. Excepting Loch Crocach, a small lake in the Assynt See also:district of See also:Sutherlandshire, its insularity (i.e. the ratio of the See also:total area of the islands to that of the water See also:surface) is higher than that of any other lake in See also:Great See also:Britain, Loch See also:Lomond coming next. Nearly all the islands See also:lie north and See also:east of Slattadale, the largest being Eilean Subhainn, or St Swithin's Isle, which contains a small lake 750 ft. See also:long, 300 ft. broad and 64 ft. deep. For two-thirds of its length the loch is flanked by magnificent mountains. On the north-east the See also:principal heights are See also:Ben Slioch (3217 ft.), whose See also:sugar-See also:loaf See also:form dominates the landscape, Ben Lair (2817) and Ben Airidh-a-See also:Char (2593), and, on the south-See also:west, the peaks of Ben Eay, four of which exceed 3000 ft.

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