i6o ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



Carnack, a tributary of the Fleet, one of the most 

 remarkable salmon ladders in Scotland, which enables 

 salmon to surmount a fall of upwards of sixty feet in 

 height, whereby they now ascend to Loch Buie, from 

 which the Carnack flows. The ladder was designed by 

 the late Mr. Bateson, of Cambusmore, and constructed 

 under his direction. Its length is three hundred and 

 seventy-eight yards, and its width from ten to twelve 

 feet, and the salmon are enabled by it to ascend a 

 precipitous incline of one hundred and thirty-eight yards 

 long, with a gradient of about one in four, by means of 

 a series of twenty-three pools. 



A short distance beyond the Mound is the village of 

 Golspie, where, at the Sutherland Arms Hotel, very good 

 accommodation is provided. The situation of this hotel 

 is one of the most pleasant in the Highlands. The 

 Golspie burn runs past the hotel, and within easy walking 

 distance there is a very pretty waterfall, which is arrived 

 at by a succession of small rustic bridges, constructed 

 within a narrow gorge of precipitous rocks (through 

 which the burn has made a course for itself), and amid 

 dense woods ; by all of which accessories it has been 

 rendered a very favourite place of resort. This burn is 

 inclined to be a sad disturber of the peace by the roaring 

 torrents it sometimes sends down — the result of very 

 rapid drainage in the Dunrobin Glen, from which it 

 proceeds, as well as fiom Loch Horn — a small loch 

 within the Glen watershed, which holds numerous but 

 small trout. The effect of its ravages is observed in 

 the " red braes," which a walk up the burn side discloses. 



