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St. Mary's Loch, Selkirkshire

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To the student of Nature it may seem easy to decide whether the water of any given lake is good for domestic uses. But as regards St. Mary's Loch, where the question has to be settled by dint of a squabble in the Auld Reekie municipality, with all its complementary dust, smut, and heat, the true aspects of Nature are liable to misrepresentation.

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St. Mary's Loch, Selkirkshire. Nature 4, 122–123 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004122c0

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