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LOW WATER in Loch Morar

Throughout the month of November 2019 there was hardly any rain in the west highland district of Morar. This was remarkable, especially since other parts of Scotland experienced heavy rainfall and news channels reported weeks of flooding in England. A chapter of my Tales of the Morar Highlands was given over to ‘The Big Water’ whose great depth became clear at the start of last century

Here we can leave aside the well-witnessed aquatic phenomenon said to be ‘more likely than the Loch Ness monster’. So

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