106 IX TKAISE OF THE SHIX. 



salmon and soa-trout tly-fishor than any other 

 streams in the empire. I attrilnue their supe- 

 riority to their exeellent mannh^'ement by Mr. 

 Andrew Young and others, who zealously earry 

 out the wishes of his Graee the Duke of ^^uther- 

 Land, embodied in instructions communicated by 

 his Grace's chief agents, ^Ir. Loch, ^I. P.. and 

 'M.T. Gunn, to the immediately superintending 

 managei*s. and by them caused to be minutely 

 eari'ied into efleet. I appreciate these rivers so 

 highly, that, after describing the several standard 

 flie^ for them, I shall write a little sketch of each. 

 I shall begin with the celebrated river Shin.. 

 the best river in Sutherlandshire. and the best I 

 ever lished in. ]Mr. Young lives at luvershin, at 

 the month of the river, and he has the power o^ 

 permitting gentlemen to angle in it on certain con- 

 ditions. Last season I killed fii\y~four salmon in 

 it in fifty-tive hours, and the flies I used were the 

 three represented in Plate Xo. III., and marked 

 No. 7.. S. 9., with the two numbered 10 and 11. 

 on Plate Xo. IV. The green-bodied tly, marked 

 Xo. 10.. was the most successful of all : but if I 

 were to fish the Shin again, my favourite summer 

 and autumn fiy should be the Ondine of Plate 

 Xo. Y. The next two are local Shin-tlies : the 

 third tiv is not. 



