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to Loch Cullen. The trout in this sheet of water are 

 some of them of great size ; many, however, are under 

 twelve inches in length, but there are few very small 

 ones. I killed one there weighing three pounds, on 

 the same day that I caught the large one mentioned 

 above, besides several others. But I did not handle 

 the rod with much enthusiasm or for any length of 

 time, as it was then getting late and no breeze on the 

 water ; besides, I was over-content with what I had 

 already taken. The Cullen trout, judging from the 

 specimens captured by myself, wants both beauty of 

 form as well as fleshy fairness. My largest fish, 

 although not half the heaviness, was almost of the 

 same length as the one previously alluded to from 

 the hill-loch, and its head fully three times the size. 

 The smaller ones, from a pound weight and down- 

 wards, were better proportioned, but by no means 

 beautiful in appearance. 



Achnanault Loch lies immediately above Cullen, and 

 is somewhat of the same description, although I have 

 heard it asserted that the trout therein are of larger 

 size and less plentiful in number, pike being very abun- 

 dant. The cursory trial I took of it showed in a man- 

 ner the reverse ; for of the two fish I captured there in 

 the course of ten minutes, both were smaller than any I 

 caught in the other loch. This, however, arose possibly 

 from accident ; indeed, I have generally remarked, when 

 two lakes are near each other and joined by a run of 

 water, that the uppermost contains the larger fish. 



