CH. X.] DEFORMED TROUT TROUT IN GLOMACH. 137 



much what a slug fed on decayed vegetables might 

 have been. But let the puff-balls be by-gones, 

 and "revenons ct nos moutons" After we had 

 vacated our house, and the owner had returned 

 to it, she one day asked the gardener something 

 about our cuisine, upon which he answered, " Eh ! 

 they eat snakes and puddock-stools ; just vermin, 

 Mrs S." 



In a small burn running into Loch Duich 

 (Ross-shire) I caught with a fly (in 1857) a curiously 

 deformed Trout, his lower jaw being of the usual 

 length, but the upper one terminating abruptly 

 close to the eyes, in the same manner as the one 

 delineated by Yarrell in his book on British 

 fishes, Vol. n. p. 108, except that in this instance 

 the deformity was more exaggerated. He weighed 

 about a third of a pound. 



Some notion of the number of Brown Trout to 

 be occasionally met with in parts of the Highlands 

 may be gathered from the following incident. In 

 the same part of the country, a short distance above 

 the grand fall of the Glomach (a visit to which 

 by the way, throwing itself, as it does, some three 

 hundred and sixty feet in one unbroken leap, 

 would be alone almost sufficient to repay a journey 

 to Scotland), I took up a rod which happened to 



