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waterfall, impassable for salmon, about four miles 

 higher up than its mouth, limits angling to that 

 distance. The pools are smooth towards its 

 mouth, but rapid towards the high waterfall; 

 and the fish, being of singular activity and game, 

 afford exciting sport. It is frequently in angling 

 order, because it is fed by a chain of lakes which 

 divides the counties of Koss and Sutherland. 



The Naver. — This is a goodly sized stream, 

 and of fair angling repute. However, its salmon 

 are neither large, nor handsome. It may be 

 fished to advantage as early as April, and with 

 the river Oikel flies, and with water in " tune," 

 affords good sport. It lies about twelve miles to 

 the east of Tongue, a town situate in the centre 

 of the northern coast of Sutherlandshire. 



The Boggy and the Halladale are two 

 streams not far from the Naver. They are in- 

 ferior to it. The first is an early, the second a 

 late river. In the former, the Oikel-flies kill ; in 

 the latter, a plain red-bodied fly, with brown 

 turkey or mallard feather wings. 



Besides the above-named rivers, there are many 

 lesser ones in Sutherlandshire aboundins^ in trout. 

 There are also numerous large and small lochs, 

 in this romantically wild and picturesque county, 

 inhabited by the salmo ferox and large grey lake- 



