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each, side, high, bare, rocky mountains. At Loch, 

 Boononetter, captain Macleod of Herries's foresters 

 brought the party two stags. The largest when gut- 

 ted weighed one hundred and thirty pounds. Four or 

 five foresters had been out in quest of them four days 

 and nights in a forest, where were neither houses nop 

 people ; their sole provision one peck or eight pounds 

 weight of barley meal, till they killed a deer, when 

 they fed upon its intrails. Captain Pierce hooked a 

 salmon which broke the line, and carried off his on- 

 ly hook, in a vtry stony rough river, that runs into 

 Boononetter. On reporting his disaster, one of the 

 foresters took an iron hook with a wooden handle, 

 afsigned all the party their stations to thro*v stones 

 into the brook, spied the salmon, struck it with the 

 iron hook, threw both on the bank of the river with 

 unparalelled acutenefs and agility. He had just retur-. 

 ued from the forest, fatigued with carrying one of 

 the deer on his back, three miles through a horrid, 

 road.. 



There is a sa.lmon fifliing in the bottom of west 

 Loch Tarbat. Herrings are frequently taken here, 

 and cod and ling abound- in the seas adjacent. Jt 

 were to be wilhed the society made a settlement- 

 here,, captain Macleod tendered them the spot at the 

 present rent, or gratis. The facility with which the 

 inhabitants might filh on either the Atlantic, ocean or 

 theMinch,.is a great inducement. The harbour swarms 

 with cuttle or ink-fifh, which pursue the herring fryt 

 to tlie surface, then seize them in their hand, for 

 so their mouth may be called ; it has many long fin-. 

 sers> wad the mouth is situated in the palm of the 



