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take one across Loch Nevis to Inverie. I recollect that when 

 I made that crossing my appearance as a casual stranger 

 seemed to excite such curiosity that I was almost ashamed of 

 myself. 



It is not in every case easy to decide if a waterfall should or 

 should not be opened up, and Morar Fall is one which seems to 

 create, as it were, the fishing in the river. If the fall were 

 blown up and completely removed, the majority of people who 

 have fished the river, or who know the district at all, would 

 agree that the angling would be much injured, since fish would 

 then run right through the river and get lost for sport in the 

 loch above. 



It is certainly true that if sport is to be secured with salmon 

 in the Morar district, the fish must be " held up " in the river. 

 It seems to me, however, that a greater extent of water might 

 be utilised ; that fish might be let up the fall more easily, and 

 checked to a greater extent in the water immediately above. 

 In this way six pools might come to be fished instead of only 

 three. 



It would not be difficult to lower the fall to some extent 

 say about 2 feet ; the operations in the upper river require 

 more consideration. The most satisfactory spots would have 

 to be selected for the erection of croys on such a scale as to 

 create lies for fish. It might also be possible to do something 

 in the way of impounding a certain amount of water, so as to 

 regulate water-flow in the river, and move fish up at spring 

 tides or when the river falls unduly low. 



LOCH MORAR 



This loch naturally received considerable attention from the 

 members of the Bathymetrical Survey, Mr. J. Y. Buchanan 

 having shown in 1879 that there were depths of over 1,000 

 feet. The particulars which I now give are principally taken 

 from the report of Dr. T. N. Johnston. 1 



The loch is a little over 11$ miles in length, and the maximum 

 breadth is over 1^ miles near the west end. The mean breadth 

 is j 9 ^ of a mile, or about 7| per cent, of the length. The area 



1 " Lochs of the Morar Basin," Scottish Geographical Magazine, xx., 

 1904, No. 9. 



