118 FISHING IN GLEN GARRY. [PART I. 



and thence diverging East and West find their 

 way to the German and Atlantic Oceans. The 

 river, deriving its supplies from the contributions 

 of several streams rising in the neighbourhood of 

 Glen Coich, runs, before reaching Loch Garry, with 

 no inconsiderable volume through two other lochs, 

 by name Polery and Kingie, broadening out here 

 and there during the rest of its course into large 

 deep pools, of which I may mention one particu- 

 larly, called "The Black Pool." The river, down 

 to its efflux from Loch Garry as well as the lochs 

 through which it runs abounds with Brown Trout, 

 those in the lochs averaging about a third of a 

 pound ; those in the stream, and particularly high 

 up, above Loch Kingie, vary more in weight, many 

 being smaller, but many also running to a much 

 larger size. The lochs are celebrated as contain- 

 ing Great Lake Trout (Salmo ferox) which not 

 unfrequently attain to a great weight there. It 

 was for the purpose of trying my luck at these 

 big fellows, that I went with a friend, in July, 

 1856, to Tomdoun, Tomindoun, or Tomadoun (the 

 name is thus indiflerently written, not an unfre- 

 quent occurrence in the Highlands, where they 

 are not very particular about their spelling), a com- 

 fortable road-side inn, about five hundred yards 



