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ranged, and prodigious as to quantity. I found this 

 latter water in a very exhausted state, and conse- 

 quently met with little success. I am informed, how- 

 ever, that, when flooded, the angling is very superior. 

 I was more fortunate by many degrees on the Carron, 

 the lower pools of which being in prime condition, and 

 full of fish, afforded me as fine sport as I ever before 

 experienced. Had I been provided with good tackle, I 

 might easily have mastered above a hundred weight of 

 salmon and grilses. As it was, having only a trouting- 

 wand, and slenderly-dressed flies, the execution made 

 by me among the larger sorts of fish was greatly 

 limited, and I had chiefly to content myself with the 

 demolition of some scores of sea-trout and finnocks. 

 The former of these gave excellent play, being fresh- 

 run and generally well-sized, averaging from one to 

 three pounds in weight. 



There are several fresh-water lochs in the district of 

 Loch Carron, but I cannot greatly commend them, save 

 that they are somewhat picturesque. Salmon which 

 have surmounted the cruive-dyke above New-Kelso 

 are, however, occasionally to be caught in the 

 lowermost. 



Passing to Loch Alsh, and from thence to Loch 

 Duich, a beautiful and superbly wooded arm of the 

 sea, I fell in with the Croe and Shiel waters, both of 

 which, when in a flooded state, are reckoned excel- 

 lent. My success at the mouth of the latter was 

 fair, but by no means equalled what I met with on 



