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stream that runs into the head of Glencoul. It is called 

 Ess coul aline, or the fall of the beautiful backlying glen, 

 and is, when in flood, a very striking object. 



Scourie Inn is distant from Lairg forty-three miles. 

 A mail gig leaves Lairg for Scourie upon the same days 

 as for Loch Inver, Near the inn, at a distance of from 

 two hundred yards up to five or six miles, there are 

 numerous yellow trout lochs open to the public, and there 

 are two small rivers and a loch in which sea-trout and 

 salmon are taken. From here also the Island of Handa, 

 distant two miles, and famed for being the breeding resort 

 of millions of sea-fowl, can be visited, and in May, June, 

 and July it is well worth seeing. 



The river Laxford, Loch Stack and Loch More, are let 

 with the Reay Forest to the Duke of Westminster. The 

 Laxford issues out of Loch Stack and has a course 

 of less than three miles. As an angling river there is 

 hardly another in the county that has such a high reputa- 

 tion, and it is, after the Shin and the Naver, the best for 

 salmon, and for sea-trout incomparably the best. 



Loch Stack is justly celebrated as an angling loch, 

 especially for sea-trout. It certainly is not surpassed, and 

 probably not equalled, in this respect. It also contains 

 large yellow-trout, char, and probably 6". fa-ox. The 

 creels of sea-trout with which it has been credited are 

 almost incredible. Stoddart, in his Anglers' Companion 

 to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland, (Wm. Blackwood 

 and Sons, 1853) a book containing much useful infor- 

 mation upon the lochs and rivers of Sutherland, says he 

 fished Loch Stack in 1S50 in very unpropitious weather, 



