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we are met by a conveyance that will take us to 

 Invergarry, a distance of eight miles, and from 

 thence on to Tomdown, another ten and a half 

 miles. It is a long drive, often very cold on a 

 May evening, for the traveller does not arrive at 

 his destination until after ten o'clock, and may 

 possibly finish up in a snowstorm. 



There is about four miles of the river Garry 

 from where it flows out of Loch Garry until it 

 empties itself near Invergarry into Loch Oich — 

 the smallest of the chain of lakes which stretches 

 across Scotland, and forms the highway of the 

 Caledonian Canal. This piece of river affords 

 perhaps the finest salmon fishing to be had in 

 Scotland, and is let to the Duke of Portland by 

 Mrs. EUice of Glengarry. Although the salmon 

 have to travel all the way from the east coast up 

 the river Ness, and through the loch of that name, 

 still the fishing commences exceptionally early — 

 indeed little sport is obtained on the water after 

 the middle of May. 



The drive from Invergarry up the glen is 

 extremely beautiful. The first three miles are 

 richly wooded, and greatly resemble the pass 

 through the Trossachs ; the outlet from the loch, 



