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After surmounting the hill above Oykel Inn, the 

 head of the watershed is reached, the flow of the water 

 from this point being westward. Aultnakealgach is 

 shortly afterwards arrived at. 



The inn is a small one, containing about eight or nine 

 bedrooms, and is situated on the shores of Loch Borrolan, 

 on the borders of the counties of Sutherland and Ross. 

 In addition to Loch Borrolan, there can be fished at 

 convenient distances from the inn. Lochs Cama, Urigill, 

 and Veattie, the Ledmore and Ledbeg rivers, the stream 

 issuing from Loch Urigill, and some other streams. Mr. 

 Mclver says : — 



" Hitherto residence at tlie inn has given all parties living there a right 

 to fish in the lochs and burns near it ; but as this practice misleads, and a 

 right to fish has actually been claimed under it, a small charge is now 

 thought of to preserve His Grace's rights ; but so small as to be nominal, 

 for the Duke is most anxious to increase the number of strangers, anglers, 

 and tourists, and to give them every reasonable facility for fishing and seeing 

 the lochs, rivers, and mountains of Sutherland." 



I had the pleasure, when at Golspie, of meeting a 

 gentleman who had just come from these waters, and he 

 told me it was surprising to see the numbers of trout 

 brought in by the six or seven anglers who were staying 

 at this inn, the aggregate weight varying from seventy 

 pounds to upwards of a hundredweight, day after day. 

 It may be judged how productive these lochs occasionally 

 are from an entry in the visitors' book at Aultnakealgach, 

 dated some years back, wherein the writer states that 

 in ten days' fishing, during the month of August, 

 he caught one hundred and five dozen of trout with 

 the fly. 



