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itself is almost 122 metres (400 ft) above sea level: sufficient to provide adequate water pressure to the majority of the town without the need for pumping. The system can deliver up to 230,000,000 litres (51,000,000 imp gal) a day. Construction was started in 1855 and the works was
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Katrine is a serpentine lake orientated west-north-west - east-south-east, having a length of about 8 miles (13 km), with a maximum width of almost exactly 1 mile (1.6 km) between the mouths of the Letter burn and the Strone burn on the northern shore to a small bay on the opposite
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deposits, judged from the geological features on both sides of the lake. Ellen's Isle is composed of epidotic grits ("Green Beds"), and the promontories of Am
Priosan partly of "Green Beds" and partly of Ben Ledi grits. The promontory between the pier and the sluice is formed of Ben Ledi grits.
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Katrine aqueduct, to the
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has provided sailings on the loch since 1900. It was coal-fired until 2007, when it was converted to use bio-diesel fuel, and continues to provide local tourist transport between Trossachs Pier and Stronachlachar during the summer.
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890:. Edinburgh: Challenger Office. pp. 48–49.
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946:"Fox Talbot's 1844 photograph of Loch Katrine"
1094:"SS Sir Walter Scott returns to Loch Katrine"
847:. Edinburgh: Challenger Office. pp. 1–5.
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967:Herschy, Reginald W. (2012).
935:Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 map
912:"The Loch Katrine Experience"
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1114:Categories
1099:The Herald
1048:23 October
1022:26 October
876:Peach, Ben
754:References
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650:opened by
398:ceathairne
293:Perthshire
279:, east of
210:Max. width
126:56°15′16″N
1135:Trossachs
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647:Milngavie
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554:An t-Sròn
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388:The name
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129:4°30′56″W
1042:BBC News
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882:(1910).
742:See also
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338:'s poem
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109:Scotland
101:Location
632:Glasgow
596:History
586:shingly
576:Islands
566:An Dubh
550:Eatarra
464:Geology
394:cateran
390:Katrine
375:Pictish
371:Katrine
320:Glasgow
307:of the
271:in the
223:Islands
996:28 May
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711:Trivia
546:Leitir
476:, 1810
379:Celtic
242:listen
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