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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: The Loch Ness Monster
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Date: 1 Aug 88 08:54:20 GMT
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miani@alliant.UUCP (Thomas Miani) writes:
>	What makes you think that the species may be trapped, The lake
>	ole nessy lives in is 700 feet deep. Within the cavern there may
>	be many many passages to where ever, and nessy may go who knows
>	where. Nessy or a animal/whatever has been spotted in not just
>	ireland, but in the mid east, and off the usa shores also.

That part of Scotland is made of two kinds of rock: granite (mostly) and
Devonian sandstone. Neither forms large cave systems the way limestone does
(is "alliant" in Kentucky by any chance?).

If there were holes connecting Loch Ness to the sea, it would be salty at the
bottom (the bottom of the loch is far below the deepest point of the North
Sea). It isn't.

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