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wind. I had made an expedition in November to mark fish, 

 and was quite drowned out. The record of rainfall hanging 

 in the billiard-room of Glenquoich Lodge, where most hospitable 

 shelter was offered, made a subject of melancholy study. 

 There seems to be some pride locally in the fact that Glenquoich 

 holds the record in this respect. The average is 108 inches in 

 the year, the maximum being about 150. When I was there 

 the rainfall was 30 inches short and only six weeks to go, but 

 the elements were doing their very best to make up for lost 

 time. 



The Upper Garry is also a beautiful river, though in places 

 the channel is distinctly rough and broken. As a rule, I under- 

 stand, it is not much fished for salmon, although over 30 have 

 been taken in the autumn. Lord Randolph Churchill used to 

 be a regular visitor, and succeeded in catching 20 fish one 

 season, but the deer are the chief object of pursuit in these 

 parts. 



In the neighbourhood of Tomdoun Hotel the trout fishing is 

 distinctly good, and visitors there can fish a section of the 

 river and Loch Garry. Loch Poulary is a series of diverticula 

 or expansions of the upper river Garry. It merges with the 

 river, so as to be ill-defined as a loch, but may be said to be 

 about a mile and a half long ; its western portion narrow and 

 from 9 to 23 feet in depth ; its eastern portion a basin half a 

 mile long and a fifth of a mile broad. This basin has been 

 found to have a maximum depth of 47 feet, the deep water 

 being confined to a channel in the centre. 



LOCH GARRY 



This is a beautiful sheet of water, with many birch-clad bays 

 and points, lying also in the direct east and west line of the 

 river. It is five miles long, and has a mean breadth of one- 

 third of a mile, and a maximum breadth of half a mile. A 

 considerable stream flows into it on the south side from the 

 glens round Ben Tee, a well-marked conical hill 2,936 feet 

 high, but the stream is steep and rocky and unsuited for the 

 ascent of migratory fish. 



The loch is 257 feet above sea-level, the descent of the lower 

 river to Loch Oich being 151 feet. The high barrier of rock 



