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mingle. The river, upon leaving this latter loch, 

 is called the Dee, and is of a considerable size, 

 sweeping away in a southerly direction by Castle 

 Douglas and Tongueland, until it finally empties 

 itself into the Solway at Kirkcudbright. 



The Dee and Ken ought to be first-rate salmon 

 rivers. Many fine fish attempt to penetrate their 

 waters ; but, what with the stake-nets and shoulder- 

 nets — the latter form of destruction being peculiar 

 to this river, and being used with great skill — the 

 salmon do not have a very happy time. It is true 

 a fair number of fish may be seen in the pools 

 below the Linn of Ken — or Earlston Linn, as it 

 is generally called — and also at the Tinkler's Loup, 

 a high narrow fall some four miles farther up, the 

 limit, I believe, to which the salmon can pass up 

 the Ken valley, but it is only occasionally that one 

 falls a victim to the rod. 



It was at Dairy, or, as it is marked in the 

 Ordnance map, St. John's Town of Dairy, that we 

 made our headquarters on that first visit to Gal- 

 loway — a village situated on the banks of the 

 Ken, eight miles from New Galloway station, with 

 its steep old street of spotless-looking whitewashed 

 houses climbing up towards the east 



