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artist, and found him very cheerful and social, but yet 

 with something of a dignified subduedness of manner, 

 more amusing to myself than his most burlesque humours. 

 Miss Strickland, a literary lady, I believe, of some name, 

 was down in the autumn, and left a favourable impression ; 



and Mrs R and her fair daughters are still anions; us, 



in great force and high favour." 



TO MISS H. WILSON. 



" Loch Inveb, Friday evening, 

 \0th July 1846. 



" We have been fishing a little since we came here. 

 Both John Lauder and I hooked a good grilse yesterday; 

 but each of us, with our usual humanity, allowed him to 

 escape after a few minutes' play. To-day I killed eighteen 

 fine river trout — that is, fresh-water ones found in the 

 river, but more like lakers. There are a great many 

 salmon in the bay, and in the lower parts of the river, 

 where the pools are too rocky and uproarious to fish with 

 any security. There is also constant netting at the mouth 

 of the river ; and, a short way up. there is a cruive which 

 allows nothing to pass through it except when it is opened, 

 from Saturday night to Monday morning. 



" We started early this morning. I went up the river 

 two or three miles, leaving John Lauder and Simson 

 Tnnes at the cruives, below which there is a good salmon 



