Loch Ness - a large deep freshwater lake of glacial origin in Scotland, stretching for 37 kilometers south-west of Inverness. Maximum depth - 226 m. The Loch Ness became famous with the world thanks to the legend of the Loch Ness Monster ("Nessie").

According to legend, the first of the mysterious creature in the remote Scottish lake, told the world the Roman legionnaires, who came to Scotland at the dawn of the Christian era.The first written mention of a mysterious creature inhabiting the waters of Loch Ness date back to 565 AD. In the biography of St. Columba Abbot Jonah said about the triumph of the holy "water beast" in the River Ness. The abbot of Columbus, please contact the heathen Picts and faith in the Scots monastery on the west coast of Scotland, once went to Loch Ness, and saw that the natives armed with spears, dragged out of the water of one of his men killed in Lake Nisagom (Gaelic Names monster) . One of the disciples of St. lightly into the water and swam across the narrow strait that to drive the boat. When he sailed from the coast, "the water stood a strange-looking beast, like a giant frog, but it was not a frog." Thus began the legend of the Loch Ness monster...

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