48 WILD LIFE OF SCOTLAND 



feet in the art who has begun on the moor, and 

 passed through the burn, and the " water " to the 

 salmon stream ; and, he will be the best lover who 

 looks back, perhaps with a sigh, from the salmon 

 stream, to the early morning when he clambered 

 up among the heather to the hill burn. 



The course of my little stream is short. The 

 chain, or watershed from which it flows is but 

 ten miles from the coast, which its windings may 

 increase into thirteen. It springs on the hillside, 

 broadens into one lake, and enters the sea as a 

 burn. 



