Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ness, Loch

Ness, Loch, Inverness-shire, on the line of the Cale-donian Canal; extends 22½ miles from Bona Ferry on the NE. to Fort Augustus on the SW., and has an average breadth of about 1 mile and a maximum depth of 130 fathoms; its surplus water is carried off by the river NESS: which see.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "loch"   (ADL Feature Type: "lakes")
Administrative units: Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place names: LOCH NESS     |     NESS     |     NESS LOCH
Place: Loch Ness

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