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having a course of fourteen miles. It is fringed thickly 

 along the banks with alder-wood, and affords excellent 

 trouting. The Islay, also, which joins the Doveran at 

 Rothiemay, is esteemed a good angling stream. Further 

 down, the Forgue burn, Turiff, and King Edward waters 

 successively enter Doveran. The salmon-fishings on 

 this river belong principally to the Earl of Fife. They 

 are rented for about one thousand six hundred pounds. 

 There are also bag-net fishings in the sea, on each side 

 of the river's mouth. That on the east side belongs to 

 Lord Fife ; that on the west, although laid claim to by 

 the same proprietor, has been let hitherto, in behoof of 

 the town of Banff, for a sum approaching to two hundred 

 pounds per annum. Besides these, there are other bag- 

 net fishings at the mouth of Cullen Water and Boyne 

 Burn, also at Blackpots, near Whitehills, the aggregate 

 rentals of which are considerable. The scenery on the 

 Doveran, at the bridge of Alvah, is highly attractive, 

 and surpasses what is met with on rivers more frequented 

 by the tourist. Owing to obstructions at the mouth, 

 the upper salmon-fishings of this river are not nearly so 

 productive as they were some years ago. The rent of 

 three miles of water, above the village of Turriff, does 

 not exceed five pounds per annum. A fair estimate 

 may be deduced from this with respect to the angling 

 capabilities of Doveran, as far as salmon are concerned, 

 higher up. 



The LOSSIE has its origin in a small sheet of water 

 called Loch Trevie. It is connected, also near its rise, 

 with Loch Dallas, Loch Noir or Grass Loch, and the 

 loch of Rheninver, in all of which there is abundance of 

 excellent trout. Its mountain tributaries are small but 

 numerous, and on one of them, the Glen Latteragh or 

 Angry Burn, is a splendid waterfall, upwards of fifty 



