CHAPTER XIV 

 THE BEAULY DISTRICT 



RIVERS BEAULY, GLASS, FARRAR, CANNICH, AND 

 AFFRIC. 



ANGLING SEASON : February 1 1 th to October 1 5th. 

 NETTING SEASON: February llth to August 26th. 



No District Fishery Board, but right of salmon fishing over practically the whole 



district is held by Lord Lovat. Factor, J. T. Garrioch, Esq., Lovat Estates Office, 



Beauly. 



The river Beauly, like the river Conon, is of a complex nature ; 

 it is not a simple river with steep upper waters gradually 

 becoming reduced to more easy gradients as it reaches the sea, 

 and with inflowing streams distinctly subordinate in character 

 to the one main river. The case is not so extreme as that of 

 the Kyle of Sutherland, but is sufficiently well marked to be 

 obvious even in the names given to the river at certain parts. 

 It is, for instance, matter of some doubt where the river ceases 

 to be the Glass and to become the Beauly. The name Glass 

 is still given to the Strath, and only the last few miles, from 

 about Eilean Aigas, have at times been called the Beauly. It 

 is convenient, however, to regard the Beauly as commencing 

 at the junction of the Glass and the Farrar. 



The Glass is formed by the junction of the Affric with a 

 comparatively unimportant stream which drains the Guisachan 

 Forest. The head waters of the Affric itself are of no interest 

 to salmon fishers, because fish cannot get there owing to the 

 impassable falls in the fearsome gorge below Loch Beneveian 

 (Beinn a Mheadhoin), where the stream drops some 400 feet 

 in about a couple of miles a place well worth seeing by those 

 who have good heads ; but the Dog Fall and the Badger Fall 

 are quite without hope for the salmon. 



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