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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: The Loch Ness Monster
Keywords: Nessie Loch Ness passages
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Date: 1 Aug 88 13:42:10 GMT
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In article <34997@aero.ARPA> zeus@zapodid.UUCP (Dave Suess) writes:

>		I suggest you check Loch Ness's altitude sometime
>		soon.  At 52 feet above sea level (according to the
>		Encyclopaedia Britannica), no matter how deep the
>		Loch is (and it gets deeper than 700 feet, even),
>		the likelihood of a hole leading to the sea somewhere
>		is about the same as the existence of Nessy.
>		Not to mention the absence of salty Lochwater!

By a similar argument, we can prove that Lake Erie has no exit to the
sea.