THE LOCHS AJSTD EIYEES OF 

 SUTHEELAl^D. 



BY WILLIAM BANTOCK. 



r is generally admitted that no county in Scot- 

 land supplies either so rich or extensive an 

 arena to the lover of the " gentle art " as 

 Sutherland. 



In addition to its being one of the largest counties, 

 its fishing waters are proportionately more extensive. 

 It possesses a great advantage, too, in having an extensive 

 coast. Its shores are washed by the German ocean 

 on the south, by the Atlantic on the west, and by the 

 North sea on the north. To each of those seas, rivers 

 flow, and they are not only very numerous, but are also 

 somewhat unique in their character, in that both their 

 sources and exits are contained within the boundaries of 

 the county ; they possess also another distinctive 

 characteristic. We correctly associate the riverine system 

 of a great part of Scotland, and of nearly all England, with 

 very long distances, over which the streams run — and their 

 sources with very modest dimensions, which they are ever 

 increasing in their seaward flow ; but these rules do not 

 apply at all to the Sutherland rivers. Any one of these, 

 could it answer the question put to Topsy upon the 



