THE SHIN 229 



faulty workmanship has again yielded to the water, large stones 

 having tumbled out of the structure so that no alteration in the 

 water-level results. 



It is of course extremely difficult to estimate the ultimate 

 action of water in a river if the natural course or channel is 

 altered. Other jetties have been erected above Inveran, some 

 for the purpose of influencing the water-level, others apparently 

 merely as convenient stances for casting, but the river Shin has 

 gradually disregarded many of these works, and returned to 

 its own flow. I fancy many who fish the river are not at all 

 sorry. 



