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most of which trout of superior dimensions, unsurpassed 

 symmetry, and excellent flavour are obtained. Mr. Mclver 



says further : — 



"In addition to the mail gig. a steamer plies from Glasgow to Loch Inver 

 once a fortnight, and we are now endeavouring to arrange that it ply once a 

 week next season. In addition to loch fishing there is bathing and sea-fishing, 

 with shooting of sea fowl, and altogether it is as pleasant and amusing a retreat 

 in the summer months as any pait of the Highlands. It has a telegraph office, 

 a resident medical man, good roads, and very interesting drives in several 

 directions among as wild and romantic scenery as could be desired. The 

 Duke has a very pretty house on the opposite side of the bay, where at least 

 thirty persons could be accommodated, and he now contemplates letting this 

 charming residence as an hotel for anglers and tourists. It contains almost 

 as many apartments as Dunrobin Castle. There is a most productive garden, 

 good offices, and the steamer lands passengers beside it. It is proposed to 

 let with Loch Inver House the river Kirkaig, separating Sutherland from 

 Ross— a fine salmon river with numerous pools — about four miles long up 

 to a fall, and the public will thus get angling upon it." 



On the north coast of Assynt, already referred to as 

 being so intersected with loch.s, there is a small inn at 

 Drumbeg, distant fourteen miles from Loch Inver, and close 

 to a loch of the same name, with numbers of other lochs 

 at one, two, and three miles distance, and all open to the 

 public. And there is a small inn at the Ferry of Kylesku, 

 eighteen miles from I.och Inver and nine miles from 

 Inchnadamph, near which numerous lochs can be fished 

 and also excellent sea-fishing obtained. There is accom- 

 modation here for no more than two visitors. About four 

 miles distant are Glendhu and Glencoul — two sea lochs 

 into which flow large burns, which are frequented by sea- 

 trout. The scenery here is unsurpassed for grandeur and 

 variety by any part of the west coast of Sutherland. 

 There is a waterfall about two hundred feet high, on a 



