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exhausted state. Kogie falls on the Black-water are 

 much more frequently ascended than those of Conan, 

 being lower, and having on one side of them a de- 

 tached run, over the precipitate part of which salmon 

 can easily toss themselves when the river is in any 

 degree flooded. A cruive, however, is placed during 

 the open season at the bottom of this passage. 



There is a good deal of picturesque beauty about 

 the Eogie falls, but they scarcely equal those of 

 Conan. On one side of them wave graceful birch - 

 trees, of natural growth ; the other is what may 

 be termed a bare ascent, although covered with 

 heather and furze-bushes, broom and juniper. The 

 Black-water is a first-rate angling stream, being as- 

 cended by the larger proportion of fish that find their 

 way over the cruives at Conan mouth. The part of 

 it immediately below the falls is rocky, and contains 

 some choice water for the rod. Besides salmon, some 

 portions of it contain beautiful yellow trout, weighing 

 in general from one to five pounds. These may be 

 taken with the fly, but more easily with a small par, 

 although pike are apt too frequently to interfere with 

 this bait. I once caught four trout of betwixt three 

 or four pounds weight each, a short way above the 

 Kogie falls, while trolling with wire tackle and the 

 upper half of a smaller fish. These fellows did not 

 display much cunning, but darted voraciously at the 

 mangled lure, assailing it with the eagerness of a 

 shark, and by no means uninclined to repeat a false 



