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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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yde. A sinuous strait at itsnorthern end, a veritable lake, several miles in width near its centre, but becomingshallower in proportion as it grows wider, Loch Lomond presents its admirerswith every possible contrast of scenery—gently swelling hills and rugged crags ;scarped islands raising their grey pinnacles abruptly above the translucent water,and groups of low islands covered with meadows and woods, and inhabited bybounding deer. Beautiful country residences are here and there seen along theshore, whilst near the northern extremity of the lake the long back of BenLomond (3,192 feet high), often enveloped in mist, rises above cultivated fieldsand forests. The same mountain region gives birth to the river Forth, one of the prin-cipal affluents of which has the famous Loch Katrine, sung of in Sir Walter Scotts Lady of the Lake, for its upper reservoir. Loch Katrine resembles the Lake MMff:i^9^^ ïlilii):7^;f:T-)TiiiiiiirEïiiiiîini iiiiiiiiiii llii!: ilHIili iiillilLiiilllillhi,.
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SOUTHEEN SCOTLAND. 807 of Lucerne in its precipitous rocks and abrupt turnings. But the guardian spiritof the lake has become the bondmaiden of human industry, for the city ofGlasgow has taken possession of Loch Katrine, in order that it may supply itsinhabitants and factories with pure water. An aqueduct, 44 miles in length, of Fig. 151.—Loch Lomond.Peale 1 : 350,000.

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