BERVIE. DEE. 365 



The principal rivers in Kincardineshire, besides the 

 Dee and North Esk, which divide it from the counties 

 of Aberdeen and Angus, are the Bervie, Carron, and 

 Towie waters. The Bervie has a course of sixteen miles 

 from the hills of Glenfarquhar, where it rises. It is 

 highly esteemed as a trouting-stream, and salmon occa- 

 sionally ascend it. The other two are of insignificant 

 size, during summer, and but indifferently peopled with 

 small trout. 



The DEE, which springs from the mountains of Brae- 

 mar, four thousand and sixty feet above the level of the 

 sea, has a course, including its windings, of nearly a 

 hundred miles. Its mean velocity is three-and-a-half 

 miles per hour, and its average depth four feet. As a 

 salmon-river, it is in considerable repute among anglers, 

 abounding in rocky pools and streams, which are fre- 

 quented, from the mouth to within a few miles of its 

 sources, by the monarch of the flood. The yellow trout 

 of Dee, however, are both scarce and small ; and in this 

 respect, it differs much from its neighbour, the Don, 

 which is famed for the abundance and size of its fresh- 

 water inhabitants. 



Of the tributaries which Dee receives in the upper val- 

 ley or glen, the principal are the Lui, the Coich, and the 

 Clunie. Connected with the Clunie-water, is Loch Cal- 

 lader, the resort of a small variety of salmon, weighing 

 seven or eight pounds. LochBrodichan, also, is situated in 

 the same district, and contains excellent red trout. These 

 lakes are on the estate of Invercauld, and not far from Cas- 

 tleton, of Braemar. At Ballater, Dee is joined by the 

 Gairden and Muick rivers ; the latter from Loch Muick 

 a sheet of water two miles in length. The scenery is 

 bold and romantic, and there is a fine cascade on the 

 stream, about the middle of its course. Not far from 



