INTRODUCTION. xx iii 



I have endeavoured, in this portion of the volume, to 

 give an accurate account of our first-class rivers and 

 their tributaries, embodying, to the best of my know- 

 ledge, all that relates to their salmon-fishings in the 

 way of produce, rental, &c. Along with these matters 

 I have comprehended, as respects Tweed, a detail of 

 the various salmon casts and stretches of water reserved 

 chiefly for rod-fishing. To specify and describe in a 

 similar manner the numerous trouting-streams and 

 lakes with which Scotland is intersected would be 

 quite superfluous. I have accordingly, in regard to 

 them, selected for special observation a few of the most 

 productive, those particularly where large trout are to 

 be found; at the same time, I have attempted in a 

 general way to describe the angling qualifications of 

 others less noted, arranging the whole, according to 

 the districts of country where they flow or are 

 situated. The concluding chapters, also, will be found 

 to embrace the names of those places where the 

 angler may expect to meet with good or tolerable 

 accommodation. 



I feel it unnecessary to add anything further in the 

 shape of introductory matter. What remains to be 

 done is to discharge, simply, an act of duty. It is to 

 express my acknowledgments to more than one indi- 

 vidual for the encouragement as well as assistance I 

 have received, while penning these pages. This means 

 of excitement withheld, I should have ventured to the 

 task with a much greater measure of diffidence than 



