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largest and most stately mansion in the north. The 

 gardens and grounds have been laid out upon a scale well 

 worthy of the edifice, and the highly cultivated fields and 

 extensive woods, stretching for miles beyond this 

 magnificent seat, give to the whole locality the aspect of 

 a more southern clime, such an aspect as one is hardly 

 prepared to find associated with the heath-covered hills 

 of the northern Highlands. There is within the castle 

 grounds a very interesting museum of natural and anti- 

 quarian history-objects which have been collected within 

 the range of the Duke's property. Permission to visit 

 the museum may be procured through the hotel-keeper. 

 The only angling grounds available from Golspie are 

 the waters of the Brora, distant about five miles. The 

 Blackwater, the principal source of the river Brora, pursues 

 a course of some miles before it enters Loch Brora. 

 The loch is formed by a series of four joined together 

 by a chain of narrow necks, and altogether about four 

 miles in length, from the last of which the river issues, and 

 after a course of about four miles enters the sea at the 

 village of Brora. Hotel accommodation can also be 

 procured at Brora. The angling on the river is let for the 

 earlier months of the season only, as the Duke reserves 

 the fishing afterwards for his guests at Dunrobin. The 

 Brora is one of the earliest rivers in the north of Scotland, 

 and it therefore, during that time, afibrds by far the best 

 angling. Between the loch and the sea it is, by its 

 frequent succession of grand holding pools and rapids, the 

 very perfection of a salmon river. I was indebted to the 

 personal kindness of His Grace for one or two days' 



