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when the breeze stiffening, we were fortunate enough 

 to capture several good-sized trout and a brace of 

 noble salmon. Here we were shown a fish weighing 

 fourteen pounds, of the ordinary loch variety, which 

 had been taken during the previous day by means 

 of a spinning bait. It was reckoned a fair pattern of 

 build in a trout of its dimensions, but did not strike 

 me as nearly so magnificent a fish as the salmo ferox 

 of Loch Awe, of which your club, gentlemen, possesses 

 such an admirable specimen. I have caught trout 

 from our English waters, which struck me as infinitely 

 more attractive in form, and not a whit inferior to it 

 in complexion. 



May. To my mind, bulk is the prime matter, Master 

 Wandle-weir. I account the beauty of a fish as nothing, 

 provided it weigh like a mill-stone. 



Swivel. Betake thee to the Arctics, Bill, and "bob 

 for whales." 



May. Not yet, Doctor, not yet I am in nowise 

 weary of thy company. But pardon our interrup- 

 tion. 



Wandle. It would be tiresome, gentlemen, to all 

 parties were I to detail circumstantially the numer- 

 ous excursions Mr. Herl-broke and myself engaged 

 in during our stay at Fort-Augustus. The Garry, 

 Morriston, Oich, Foyers, Coiltie, and Enneric, were 

 all visited in succession, nor did we neglect running 

 a fiy over two or three of the best reputed lochs, 

 situated in the surrounding district of country. 



