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mentioning, excepting the Poe, in whose little 

 pools there are perch and pike, and now and 

 then a lusty trout But I had almost forgot 

 the lough called Balloh, at the foot of Drumon, 

 wherein there is perch, but not a trout ; and 

 truly I question if there be a pike. 



Theoph. O Arnoldus, who could ever have 

 imagined such charming temptations amongst 

 a people so unpolished in art, and a country 

 without cultivation ? Here's all miracle of ri- 

 vers and rivulets, and as miraculously furnish- 

 ed with fish. What shall I say, or what shall I 

 think, if not to contemplate these solitary fields, 

 as pleasant and delightful as fools paradise, by 

 fondlings called Elizium ? Who can deny him- 

 self such diverting associates, (though in a rude 

 part of a country,) when their rivers and rivu- 

 lets are so liberally furnished with trout ? What 

 pity is it to leave such entertainments behind 

 us, to ramble the remote northern tracts of Scot- 

 land, where the eves e're long will hang with 

 icikles ? 



Am. It may be so, for here we cannot stay 

 to inhabit, nor any longer enjoy these solitary 

 recreations ; we must steer our course by the 

 North Pole, and relinquish those flourishing 

 fields of Kintire and Innerary ; the pleasant 

 bounds of Marquess Argile, which very few 

 English-men have made discovery of, to inform 



