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left bank of the river, or at the Lochinvar Hotel, Dairy, 

 which is two miles farther up the stream. 



The river Dee has its sources in something like a 

 dozen rills, some of which pursue an independent course 

 for a considerable distance. The highest of these rills, 

 and strictly speaking the parent stream, rises a mile from 

 the southern boundary of Ayrshire, and pursues a 

 circuitous course for six miles under the names of the 

 Sauch Burn and the Cooran Lane. Receiving at this 

 point the surplus waters of Loch Dee, it then takes the 

 name of the river Dee, and flows for seventeen miles in a 

 south-easterly direction, absorbing a large number of 

 small tributaries on its way. Over the whole of this 

 distance it is said to be a " pretty stream, wending its 

 way through moorland flats " by the foot of hills alike 

 devoid of " verdant foliage or grandeur." Passing by 

 New Galloway about two miles to the Westward, this 

 river next flows almost due east for five or six miles till 

 it receives the more plentiful waters of the Ken ; and 

 then bending silently, but proudly round, like the arc 

 of a circle, it sweeps in a south-westerly direction, rich 

 in waters and scenic beauty, till it falls into the Bay of 

 Kirkcudbright. This river has the repute of being well 

 stocked with salmon, which are said to be of " a darker 

 colour and fatter quality " than the salmon of any river 

 in the south of Scotland. Like the majority of its 

 tributaries, it is also said to be well supplied with burn- 

 trout. The salmon reaches, as well as some of the trout 

 ones on this stream, are presei'ved, while the rest are free. 

 Generally, however, angling permission for trout, and not 



