30 ANGLING & ART IN SCOTLAND 



higher up the Ken valley than Dairy, on the direct 

 road between that place and Dalmellington. The 

 glowing reports received of the historic Water of 

 Deugh as an angling stream, no doubt helped us to 

 this decision. 



I will not inflict the reader with a detailed 

 account of our march that day ; suffice it to say 

 that we scaled many heights, including Corscrine, 

 the highest of the Kells range, from whose summit 

 a glorious mountain view was obtained. And here 

 I would wish to pause for a minute ; for this 

 wild view merits a word of description, as no 

 grander scene can be met with in the whole of 

 Galloway. 



Looking westward, the ground falls away rapidly 

 from your feet into a dark, deep valley, fringed 

 on the farther side by frowning crags, scored and 

 furrowed during countless centuries by the action 

 of Nature's agents. At their foot, far beneath, 

 three tarns (aptly named the Lochs of the Dungeon) 

 lie sullen and black under the shadow of the 

 precipice. Beyond, and above this again, the 

 eye can traverse a rugged and undulating plateau 

 where (as it might be a jewel set in a cup-like 

 hollow of the hills) lies Loch Enoch — not grim 



