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the fall and are much more likely to find the mouth of the pass, 

 provided the flow in the pass is not relatively small. 



Proposals for the erection of a pass at these falls had been 

 raised from time to time for some forty years, so that the 

 consummation of the undertaking, owing to the agreement 

 between Dr. Barbour of Bonskeid and the Duke of Atholl in 

 the matter of title to fishings above, and the action of the Tay 

 District Fishery Board in providing the pass, is now matter of 

 general satisfaction. 



Following upon the erection of the pass also, the modification 

 of Dunalastair Falls further up was also decided upon. The 

 height of these falls was quite as great as the Falls of Tummel, 

 but the precipitous drop into the pool below was not so great. 

 The plan adopted was to blast a channel through this lower 

 abrupt position. A very considerable amount of shattered 

 rock naturally fell into the pool below, which in course of time 

 will no doubt be pushed aside by the action of high floods. 

 Already from the reports of fish captured and seen above, it is 

 clear that the passage has been considerably improved. Some 

 extremely nice water exists in those upper waters, and I have 

 known of 4 fish being hooked within an hour in the large 

 pool below Dunalastair House. Some excellent spawning 

 ground also exists between Dunalastair and the foot of Loch 

 Rannoch. 



RIVER GARRY 



This river flows out of the loch of the same name, situated 

 within a short distance of Dalnaspidal Railway Station, and 

 flows through Struan, Blair Atholl, and Killiecrankie, to join 

 the Tummel at Faskally, a distance of 22 miles. Loch Garry 

 is fully 2| miles long, and has an average breadth of less than 

 a quarter of a mile. It is, for its size, a rather deep loch basin 

 with two depressions, one 113 feet, which is the maximum depth 

 of the loch situated towards the northern end, and the other 

 and larger depression yielding a sounding of 105 feet. The loch 

 is about 1,320 feet above sea-level and drains an area of fully 

 22 square miles of steep hill country. 



The river from the time it emerges through alluvial deposits 

 close to the outlet from the loch, rattles along over a long 

 succession of schist ledges which dip south-east in the direction 



