352 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



Awe district are : "On the north point Appin Ferry, including 

 the east shore of Lismore Island ; on the south, Craignish 

 Point, excepting Loch Crinan, the loch to be denned by a line 

 drawn from the southernmost point of the mainland imme- 

 diately north of Eriska Island, and continued along the outer 

 face of that island to the projecting point of the mainland 

 nearest to the south-west point of the said island, and excepting 

 the portions of the sea- coast and estuary and river, contained 

 between Minard Point and the bridge from the mainland over 

 Siel Sound to Siel Island ; the Awe district to include all the 

 islands within the said limits south of Lismore Island, east of 

 the Island of Mull and north of Jura ; and that the district 

 shall consist of the portions of the sea- coast and the estuary 

 and the river contained between the said points." 



The exception of the coast from Minard Point to Siel Sound 

 Bridge isolates the Nell district, with the little river flowing 

 from Loch Nell to Loch Feochan. It does not seem to provide 

 in any way for the isolation of the Creran district, yet the 

 limits of the Creran district are separately given in the first 

 schedule of the 1868 Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, along 

 with the limits above quoted for the Awe and other rivers. 

 For this reason, therefore, the Creran district is considered 

 along with the Nell district, as separate from, although 

 surrounded by, the Awe district. Curiously enough, no 

 separate mention is made of the Etive, which is twice the size 

 of the Creran, so the Etive is considered as part of the Awe 

 district in spite of the fact that in the last line of the definition 

 first quoted the word " river " and not " rivers " is used, a 

 distinction sufficient to entirely isolate a separate stream in 

 some parts of Scotland. 



Loch Etive, one of the most remarkable sea lochs in Scotland, 

 runs away inland like a huge boomerang for 20 miles, its upper 

 end pointing north-east. Near the entrance, where a marked 

 constriction takes place for about a mile and a half of the 

 length of the loch's course, and where also a rocky barrier 

 exists, are the famous Connel Falls, or Falls of Lora, if the 

 Ossianic title is preferred. At low tide the rocks of the barrier, 

 which runs about two-thirds of the way across, stand some 

 4 to 5 feet above the level of the sea, and the great mass of 

 water which has filled up the inland and wider portion of the 



