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11 miles reached the comparatively low level of 500 feet. 

 Loch Dochart and Loch Jubhair are 512 feet, and from the 

 latter the stream now known as the Dochart flows 14 miles to 

 Loch Tay at Killin. 



In June, July, and August a fair number of salmon may be 

 caught in the Dochart by visitors staying at the Luib Hotel, 

 and the pools in the immediate neighbourhood of Luib are the 

 best. The lowest section of the river is fished from Killin, 

 but falls exist a short distance above Killin, and when salmon 

 leave Loch Tay, as they commonly do from about the third 

 week of May onwards, and ascend the falls, they appear to 

 travel onwards pretty steadily till the Luib pools are reached. 

 The fish are of the heavy Loch Tay class, which have ascended 

 to the loch in the early months of the year, and now average 

 perhaps 16 Ib. to 17 Ib. This ascent at the Killin Falls is 

 governed by the temperature of the water, and is comparable 

 to the conditions found in the Inverness -shire Garry, or the 

 Helmsdale at Kildonan, where also fish do not ascend till the 

 wintry conditions of the water have given way at the approach 

 of summer. 



Glen Dochart is a wide and, for the most part, rather bare 

 glen. From the railway line, which traverses it from Killin 

 Junction to Crianlarich, the river is seen from one end to the 

 other, and, it may be, also the tiny-looking train which puffs 

 its way up from Loch Tay to the junction. But the hills on 

 either side rise over 3,000 feet, Ben More, on the south side, 

 being 3,843 feet. 



Loch Tay, to which more detailed reference will presently 

 be made, is practically 350 feet above sea-level, and from 

 its eastern or Kenmore end the river Tay takes its rise in 

 considerable volume. Here the lower slopes are beautifully 

 wooded, and the extensive parks round Taymouth Castle, 

 the seat of the Marquis of Breadalbane, introduce that sense 

 of the value and care of the surrounding lands which seem to 

 me to distinguish the Tay throughout its course. It is not a 

 river in wild open Highland scenery. The banks and the 

 lower hills are richly wooded with a variety of trees ; beeches, 

 oaks, limes, and conifers are mingled in profusion. The more 

 rugged features of the landscape appear only in the hill- tops 

 beyond and above the woods, and from the time the large 



