Journey To The Western Isles Of Scotland By Samuel Johnson




























































































 -   But Boethius lived at no great distance; if he never
saw the lake, he must have been very incurious, and - Page 34
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But Boethius Lived At No Great Distance; If He Never Saw The Lake, He Must Have Been Very Incurious, And If He Had Seen It, His Veracity Yielded To Very Slight Temptations.

Lough Ness, though not twelve miles broad, is a very remarkable diffusion of water without islands.

It fills a large hollow between two ridges of high rocks, being supplied partly by the torrents which fall into it on either side, and partly, as is supposed, by springs at the bottom. Its water is remarkably clear and pleasant, and is imagined by the natives to be medicinal. We were told, that it is in some places a hundred and forty fathoms deep, a profundity scarcely credible, and which probably those that relate it have never sounded. Its fish are salmon, trout, and pike.

It was said at fort Augustus, that Lough Ness is open in the hardest winters, though a lake not far from it is covered with ice. In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected. Accuracy of narration is not very common, and there are few so rigidly philosophical, as not to represent as perpetual, what is only frequent, or as constant, what is really casual. If it be true that Lough Ness never freezes, it is either sheltered by its high banks from the cold blasts, and exposed only to those winds which have more power to agitate than congeal; or it is kept in perpetual motion by the rush of streams from the rocks that inclose it.

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