CH. IV. TRAVELLING FROM EDINBURGH. 45 



CHAPTEE IV. 



Return to Sutherland Travelling from Edinburgh Skye 

 Terrier; peculiarities of Lairg Loch Shin River Shin 

 Reserve of the English Mr. Young's experiments 

 respecting Salmon ; Anecdotes of Salmon ; Manner of 

 Spawning; Food of Salmon Drive to Aultnaharrow 

 Curlews, etc. Loch Naver Phalaropes Widgeon Green^ 

 shank, etc. 



June 9th. HAVING been called suddenly to Eng- 

 land in the midst of my rambles in Sutherlandshire 

 in May, I did not find myself again in that county 

 till the 9th of June. Travelling (that is, the mere 

 act of passing along the road) takes up very little 

 of your time nowadays. You go from London to 

 Edinburgh in about thirteen hours, and a good 

 steamer takes the traveller from Granton Pier to 

 Invergordon in Eoss-shire quickly and comfortably 

 enough ; that is, I left Granton at 6 A.M. on the 

 6th, and landed at Invergordon early in the evening 

 of the 7th, accompanied only by a Skye terrier, who 

 from his earliest childhood, or rather puppyhood, 

 has always managed to stick closely to me. In 

 wild-fowl shooting, when no dog is required save a 

 quiet retriever, Fred (so was he christened by some 

 of my children) is always allowed to accompany me, 



