262 A TEAE OF liberty; or, 



mountain range which forms the eastern boundary of the Gweebarra, 

 and wilder still as we hurried down the long descent which ends at 

 the police barrack beyond the bridge. Whilst our wearied horse rested 

 we had ample time to admire this most solitary spot. On every side 

 it is shut out from the world by uninhabited wastes ; but the glen 

 through which rushes this glorious mountain river is indeed sublime. 

 Running between lofty hills, toiling with innumerable rocks, it frets 

 its way to Gweebarra Bridge, below which it forms a long, deep 

 reach, and then falls into the estuary. As an angling station I have 

 no personal experience of its merits, for though often halting here 

 to bait my horse, I never threw a fly on any of its pools. That it 

 affords admirable grilse and trout fishing in a wet season is, how- 

 ever, indisputable. More than one of my acquaintance have rented 

 it at various times, and I have no reason to believe they were ever 

 dissatisfied with their sport. 



The sun was sinking as we walked up the steep road towards 

 Dunglow. Lights were shining in the hospitable house of my old 

 friend at Roshane, as we wended our weary way slowly towards the 

 ford, and when at length the kindly voice of the host, and the 

 sharper tones of his worthy wife, bade us welcome to Gweedore, the 

 night was far spent, and mistress and maid, master and man, were 

 as weary as any four wayfarers in Her Majesty's dominions. 



CHAPTER XXXVn. 



Gweedore Poison Glen Dunlewey Lakes Arigle Valley of the Claddy 

 Angling Regulations "Waters of the Neighbourhood" The Middle Lake 

 A Mountain Storm Old Dan. 



October 13. 

 In the most solitary nook of the Rosses, two lofty walls of nearly 

 perpendicular rock hem in a narrowing strip of level swamp, through 

 which flows a small and shallow stream. This pass is the Poison 



