CH. VI.] SALMON AND SEA TROUT. 87 



The heads of those Sea-lochs which form the 

 embouchures of favourite Salmon-rivers, often 

 become the temporary resting-places of Salmon and 

 Sea Trout, which are not unfrequently weather- 

 bound there for weeks together, being prevented 

 by want of water from ascending the river for 

 which they were making. The fish meanwhile 

 continuing to flock in, such a loch, after a long 

 spell of dry weather, sometimes swarms with them 

 in a manner scarcely credible. I know of one, 

 the precise locality of which I trust I shall be 

 forgiven for not pointing out, 



" There is a stream, I name not its name, lest itinerant 



Tourist 

 " Hunt it and make it a lion, and get it at last into 



guide-books.' 



(dough's u 



where, under such circumstances, I have seen the 

 Salmon and Sea Trout congregated in fabulous 

 quantities. Some idea of their numbers may be 

 gathered from the fact that in the month of July, 

 when they throw themselves out of the water more 

 than they do later in the season, I several times 

 tried whether I could count ten between the 

 appearance of any two fish, and on every occasion 

 was interrupted before I could get to the "ten" 



