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MAREE, LOCH

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 698 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MAREE, LOCH , a fresh-water lake in the county of Ross and Cromarty,
Scotland
 . Its nameof which Maroy and Mourie are older variantsdoes not, as is often supposed, commemorate the Virgin, but St Maelrubha, who came from Bangor in Ireland in 671 and founded a monastery at Applecross and a chapel (now in ruins) on Isle Maree. Trending in a
south
 -easterly to north-westerly direction, the lake has a length of 131 M. from Kinlochewe at the head of the dam erected in the 16th century (or earlier) by the iron-smelters of the Cheardach Ruardh, or Red Smiddy, on the short but impetuous river Ewe by which it drains to the 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 depth, 367 ft., occurs in the upper basin, the mean depth being 125 ft. Its waters cover an 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
district
  of
Sutherlandshire
 , its insularity (i.e. the ratio of the total area of the islands to that of the water surface) is higher than that of any other lake in
Great
  Britain, Loch Lomond coming next. Nearly all the islands lie north and
east
  of Slattadale, the largest being Eilean Subhainn, or St Swithin's Isle, which contains a small lake 750 ft.
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
principal
  heights are Ben Slioch (3217 ft.), whose
sugar
 -loaf form dominates the landscape, Ben Lair (2817) and Ben Airidh-a-
Char
  (2593), and, on the
south
 -west, the peaks of Ben Eay, four of which exceed 3000 ft.


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