292 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



No salmon can ascend either head streams of the Broom, for, 

 about a mile above the junction, each stream has an impassable 

 fall where the descent is made from the high mountain- valley 

 tracts of the district to the main lower section. The point at 

 which the Droma falls over is, however, much higher than is 

 the case with the Cuileig. The high road from Garve passes 

 Loch Droma and descends the line of the stream on the north 

 side, but passing through a thick wood the traveller does not 

 realise that the stream so close makes the sudden drop of some 

 200 feet into a fearsome gorge. There is a foot-bridge a short 

 way below the position of the fall, and which spans the gorge. 

 From the centre of this, between overhanging branches, a 

 splendid view of these Falls of Measach, or Corrie Halloch, can 

 be obtained. There are very few places in Scotland where a 

 similar sight can be enjoyed. The gorge at the head of Glen 

 Afric is one, and the Falls of Glomach in Kintail is another. 

 The latter is the highest fall in Scotland (350 feet, with a total 

 descent to the foot of the ravine of 750 feet), but has not the 

 great charm of rich foliage in its surroundings. I happen to 

 have a rather vivid recollection of one tree which grows out 

 from the end of a crag at Glomach, for by it I was able to 

 extricate myself from a rather tight corner I got into on a 

 solitary climb on one occasion. 



The linn on the Cuileig, the other head stream of the Broom, 

 is by no means so extraordinary in the matter of height, but 

 with its precipitous face and great rock ledges below, it forms 

 a most picturesque fall. Salmon reach the linn-pool freely, 

 and are there fished for. Two beautifully constructed pools 

 were formed in the river below the linn by the late Sir John 

 Fowler, of Braemore, and a long stretch of water, which 

 previously had been valueless for fishing, was made to yield 

 excellent results to the rod, but the violence of a great flood in 

 1892 was too much for the artificial barriers, and they have 

 not since been renewed. 



From the crest of the Falls of Measach, which is about 615 

 feet above the sea, and the stream above the Cuileig Fall, 

 which is 530 feet up, the river Broom makes such a rapid 

 descent that at a point about two miles lower down it is only 

 130 feet above sea-level. Thereafter for other two miles the 

 river has a rapid cheery current, splashing round rocks and 



