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Macdonald and to Macleod of Macleod, but visitors at Sligachan 

 Inn can fish it on the west bank. It is better for sea-trout 

 than for salmon, and the best months are July, August, and 

 September. 



But the man who goes fishing in Sligachan is compelled to 

 give as much attention to the wonderful surroundings as to his 

 sport. There is an impressiveness about the dark-coloured 

 Cuillins, with their weird outlines, which is in a manner separate 

 from the impressiveness of other grand scenes in Scotland. 

 Loch Coruisk, perhaps of all places, makes a man feel very 

 humble. The upper part of the Sligachan Glen comes near to 

 it. 



" The enormous bulks, their gradual receding to invisible 

 crests, their utter movelessness, their austere silence, daunt 

 you. You are conscious of their presence, and you hardly care 

 to speak lest you be overheard. You can't laugh ; you would 

 not crack a joke for the world. Glen Sligachan would be the 

 place to do a little self-examination in. There you would have 

 a sense of your own meannesses, selfishnesses, paltry evasions 

 of truth and duty, and find out what a shabby fellow you at 

 heart are ; and, looking up to your silent father-confessors, 

 you would find no mercy in their grim faces." 



