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and Ireland, but there are very valuable 

 grouse moors elsewhere in the United 

 Kingdom, in the north of England 

 especially. 



Attached to not a few grouse moors 

 are stretches of salmon fishing. These 

 being perhaps outwith our special subject, 

 have not been reckoned in our estimate 

 of sporting values ; but it may be stated 

 in passing that the rents derived from 

 salmon fisheries in Scotland cannot be 

 under £200,000 per annum. In the last 

 Report of the Inspector of Salmon 

 Fisheries for Scotland, the rental of these 

 for 1908 is given at £121,521, which 

 "takes no account of the Beauly — of the 

 sporting value of the rivers in Sutherland, 

 not ascertainable separately from shoot- 

 ings, and of the large number of small 

 west coast districts where no Boards are 

 established " (Report, page 8). 



Enough has probably been stated to 

 have made it plain that, viewed economic- 

 ally, we possess in our grouse and other 

 shootings a very important property, so 



