CHAPTER XXI 



THE RIVERS HOPE, DIONARD, KINLOCH, 

 AND POLLA 



ANGLING SEASON : Hope and Polla, 12th January to 30th September. 



Dionard, llth February to 31st October. 



NETTING SEASON : Hope and Dionard, llth February to 26th August. 



The river Polla belongs to the Board of Agriculture for Scotland. The river 

 Dionard or Grudie is the property of Mr. W. Evring Gilmour of Rosehall. The river 

 Hope belongs to Mr. Milburn. 



RIVER HOPE 



While the Naver and Borgie have lochs from which they 

 flow at a considerable distance from the sea, the Hope suffers 

 from having its loch quite close to the sea. Loch Hope, a 

 sheet of water six miles long and a very beautiful sheet of 

 water, too is, at its northern end, within a mile and a half of 

 the sea at the entrance to Loch Eireboll. This mile and a half 

 of water is the river Hope. The loch is only 12 feet above 

 sea-level, so that, as in the case of Loch Maree in Ross-shire, if 

 the great erosion of the land, which occurred at the end, say, 

 of the glacial period, had been carried a little further, Loch 

 Hope would have been a sea loch, and the valley of the river a 

 kyle. 



Above Loch Hope the stream of Strath More, as it is called, 

 in contradistinction to the stream of the small strath, which 

 is the Polla, flows a distance of 11 miles from Loch- 

 na-Dealachd, a narrow, little, sinuous loch below Ben Hee, 

 and close to the highest source of the Naver. This loch is 

 805 feet up, and the stream which flows from it makes a very 

 rapid descent, since about a mile below the stalking lodge of 



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