CHAPTER XX 



THE RIVERS FORSS, HALLADALE, NAVER, 

 AND BORGIE 



ANGLING SEASON : Forss, 25th February to 31st October. 



Halladale, Naver, and Borgie, 12th January to 



30th September. 

 NETTING SEASON: llth February to 26th August. 



District Board sits in the Thurso in case of the Forss. 

 THE FORSS 



This little Caithness river rises from the central loch of a 

 series of three small lochs close to the Sutherland boundary. 

 Like many other small things this little loch has a long name, 

 viz., Loch Torr-na-Ceardaich. The burn first flows in an 

 easterly direction, and is called the Cnocglass or Torran Water. 

 Bending northwards it passes close to another small loch 

 called Loch Calam, 435 feet above sea-level, which empties 

 into it by a small stream. After several windings the course 

 trends more to the north of the Cnocglass, and ends in Loch 

 Shurrery, 321 feet above the sea, and about a mile long. It is 

 a trouting loch, although salmon reach it in autumn. 



Thereafter the stream is called the Forss, and continues its 

 course due north for some miles. Then winding to the north- 

 east, it receives a stream from Loch Calder, a good trouting 

 loch, which also is reported to contain char. A further course 

 of about three miles brings the little river to the bridge of Forss 

 and Forss House. Here a serious fall occurs, which gives the 

 Norse name to the river, and from the fall to the sea at Crosskirk 

 Bay is only a mile. The total length of the course described 

 is about 15 miles. 



The rocky creek known as Crosskirk Bay, which forms the 

 estuary of the river, is sufficiently narrow at its seaward opening 



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