190 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



Pulharrow burns, which, like the main stream, are well 

 supplied with trout weighing from three ounces to three 

 pounds, and even upwards. A little less than a mile 

 above Dairy, the Ken enters a champaign part of the 

 county, through which, for a distance of three miles, it 

 sweeps noiselessly over a shingly bed, in segments and 

 semi-circles which abound with splendid trouting streams 

 and magnificent salmon pools. At this point, which is 

 exactly opposite the clean and pretty little town of New 

 Galloway, the valley-land becomes so flat that the river 

 assumes the form of a series of lochs for three or four 

 miles, which vary from one to three-quarters of a mile in 

 width, and which, now and then, are skirted on both sides 

 with pretty belts of wood. This chain of lakes is 

 reported to be well supplied with large trout, pike, and a 

 variety of other fish, as also salmon in the season. At 

 the head, and on the right bank of the lake chain, stands 

 Kenmure Castle, upon a very pretty eminence, and has a 

 very picturesque appearance, but certainly few architec- 

 tural charms. To the rear of the castle is the garden, 

 which is enclosed on one side by perhaps the most 

 magnificent buck-hedge in the kingdom, this being from 

 twenty to twenty-five feet in height, and thirty broad 

 at the top, wide enough for a carriage and pair to be 

 driven along it. The whole section of the Ken, from 

 its junction with the Deugh to its subsequent junction 

 with the Dee, extending to twelve miles or thereabouts, 

 is free to anglers who live for the time being at any of 

 the hotels in New Galloway, at the Spalding Arms, 

 which is less than a quarter of a mile distant and on the 



