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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



upkeep of the river and its true sporting abilities it is to 

 be hoped that no increase upon that number will ever 

 be made. Greed may do so some day, but greed, if it 

 does, will some day have its reward. It will be for the 

 Estate Managers to see to this in the future. 



Commencing at the sea, the pools of Inver are as 



follows : 



LOWER INVER. 



Sea pool. 



Carpenter's pool, and a cast 



called the Claraig. 

 Rockie. 



Little Rockie. ' 

 Mill pool and Claraig. 

 Hog's Back and several " wee 



placies " above. 

 Ladder. 

 Gravestone. 

 Pollen. 



Old Cruive ; rarely fished. 

 Pollochie. 

 Scrambles. 



Capt. Turner's pool (?) or " Turn- 

 pool." 



Red pool Claraig. 

 Red pool. 

 Island pool. 

 Dyke pool. 

 Whirl pool. 

 Long pool. 



And here endeth the lower half of the Inver. 

 Continuing the naming of the pools of the Upper Inver, 

 as we ascend these are as follows : 



UPPER INVER. 



Brackloch pool (a dead pool 

 wanting much wind, and famous 

 for kelts). 



Deer pool. 



(A cast.) 



Washing pool. 



Minister's pool. 



Bridge pool. 



Black pool. 



The Narrows, which comprise 

 some five good casts between 

 the Black pool and the next 

 named. 



Neck of the Narrows, and a 

 cunning corner below. 



Lower Grassy. 



Upper Grassy. 



Glynn Burn cast. 



Lochan Neaski (three streams 

 running into a loch, or widen- 

 ing of the river. 



Bridge pool, and a good cast 

 above it. 



Lochan Garbhie. 



The above I believe to be a full list of all the real pools of 

 the river. 



I fished the Upper Inver first in 1865, and at that time 

 the pools were pointed out to me and the lies of the fish, 



