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which communicate directly with the sea, 

 contain abundance of small trout ; and it is 

 equally well known that others even quite 

 close to these are troutless. Mr. Hardy, of 

 Old Cambus, relates that many such small 

 streams between St. Abb's Head and Dunbar 

 contain trout, although these streams are 

 nearly dried up in summer (in lit.). 



Below the Smoo Cave at Durness, in a 

 small stream which issues from the cave and 

 runs a course of some thirty to forty yards to 

 the sea, there have been small trout as long as 

 local memory can recall, but in a mile or two 

 of river above the caves, into which it falls 

 with a fall of about thirty feet or more, there 

 were no trout whatever until they were taken 

 up from the small bit of stream below the 

 caves. These introduced trout are lovely in 

 colour, a bright line of most brilliant and 

 converging scarlet sealing-wax-like spots 

 running along the medial line. 



The trout of Loch an Sgearrach, in the 

 Goberneasgach deer-forest, retain the par- 

 markings through the adult stages, but these 

 markings fade after the fish are taken out of 

 the water. This locality is separated from 



