i64 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



The scenery about Loch Brora is remarkably fine. 

 There are charming views from His Grace's rustic picnic 

 cottages at each end of the loch, and few Highland scenes 

 can be finer than those which are obtained from the centre 

 of the upper basins where Carrol and Gordonbush supply 

 an amphitheatre of rock and wooded scenery whose 

 beauties no words can depict. 



Close to where the river issues from the loch the 

 Duke has for some years past established a salmon 

 artificial-breeding house, with a capacity for hatching 

 upwards of 300,000 ova. A large number of these ova 

 are procured from the salmon of other rivers throughout 

 the country, and also from the Rhine, it being intended 

 by such means to improve the breed of His Grace's 

 rivers, whither the young fish are despatched as 

 soon as they are able to bear the journey. There are 

 likewise breeding houses established in several other 

 places, from which (including the Brora) about half 

 a million of young salmon are annually put into the 

 various rivers of Sutherland. I was also informed by Mr. 

 Wright, the Duke's private secretary, that about a year 

 ago a number of vS". fontinalis were introduced into the 

 river Brora at its exit from the loch, with a view to their 

 acclimatisation. One of the little strangers having had 

 the misfortune to seize one of my sea-trout flies in this 

 neighbourhood, was returned to its natural element as 

 tenderly as possible. It is to be hoped that the intro- 

 duction of this beautiful species of the Sahnonidce may 

 prove an entire success. 



In passing the Brora Railway Station, a small but very 



