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of this district, but the knowledge I possessed of such a 

 wide and varied field was not such as would satisfac- 

 torily redeem the pledge given in respect of this paper, 

 I therefore placed myself in communication with Mr. 

 Mclver, factor of the Duke of Sutherland's Scourie 

 management, and he has with so much kindness, and 

 with such complete information, come to my assistance, 

 that I must acknowledge my obligations to him. This 

 information, too, is the more important as Mr. Mclver 

 speaks with a special knowledge of the whole subject 

 within his range. 



The Scourie district includes the parishes of Assynt 

 and Eddrachillis and that part of Durness extending 

 from Durness to the west side of Loch EriboU. A mail 

 gig runs from Lairg to Loch Inver every Monday, 

 Wednesday, and Friday mornings (a distance of forty- 

 six miles), returning to Lairg on Tuesdays, Thursdays, 

 and Saturdays. The first fishing station arrived at is 

 Aultnakealgach (Cheaters' Burn), distance twenty-five 

 miles from Lairg. The journey from Lairg to this 

 point is a very interesting one. The road traverses 

 strath Oykel, a very favourable specimen of a Highland 

 strath. About eight or nine miles from Lairg, Rosehall 

 is reached, where the eye is relieved from the landscape 

 of open moor by extensive woods, through which the 

 river Cassley (a tributary of the river Oykel) runs. The 

 course of the latter is afterwards followed for several 

 miles up to the Oykel Inn, close to which there is a 

 salmon-leap, which, when the salmon and sea-trout are 

 running up the river, will repay a visit, 



