WILD SPORTS OF THE HIGHLANDS 



of timber and the immense body of water during heavy 

 floods.The net-fishingis in active operation from this point 

 down to the sea,and the number of salmon andgrilse some- 

 times caught is astonishing. Instead of rock and cliff, the 

 river is banked in by heaps of shingle, which are constantly 

 changing their shape and size. There seemstobe aconstant 

 succession of stones swept down by the river: what in one 

 season is a deep pool, is, after the winter floods, a bank of 

 shingle.Anendless supplyseemstobe washed off themount- 

 ains and rocks through which the river passes, and these 

 stones,by the time they have been rolled down to the lower 

 part of the river,are as rounded and water- vv'orn in their ap- 

 pearance as the shingle on the sea-shore. 





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