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largest expanse of water in this shire is the reservoir for 

 supplying the Forth, Clyde, and Monkland canals, 

 which covers an expanse of three hundred acres, and 

 contains perch and trout the former in great abun- 

 dance. Near it, also, is a small lake, termed the Lily- 

 loch, producing trout and charr. 



The average velocity of the Clyde is from one to three 

 miles per hour. At five miles above Glasgow, its 

 breadth is from two hundred to two hundred and fifty 

 feet. Below this city it receives, opposite the village of 

 Govan, the Kelvin-water and the streams of Dumbarton- 

 shire and Renfrewshire. The Kelvin-water is occa- 

 sionally frequented by salmon, and contains trout, pike, 

 perch, and roach. 



The LEVEN issues from Loch Lomond, and after a 

 course of seven or eight miles, falls into the Firth of 

 Clyde at Dumbarton. It contains salmon, sea-trout, 

 and several of the fresh-water species of fish. The 

 fishings belong partly to Sir James Colquhoun, of 

 Luss, and partly to the corporation of Dumbarton. The 

 latter were let not long ago for two hundred and eighty- 

 one pounds per annum. 



Loch Lomond is twenty-four miles in length, and 

 where broadest, eight in width. It contains all the 

 fish alluded to by Smollett, in his celebrated Ode to 

 the Leven Water, with the addition of the gwyniad 

 prosen, or fresh-water herring. Its principal feeders 

 are the Glenfalloch, Inveruglas, Douglas, Luss, Finlass, 

 and Fruin, and on the Stirlingshire side, the Endrick, 

 and a small stream from Loch Arklet. In all these 

 waters, there are numbers of small trout. I have 

 killed as many as ten or twelve dozen on a forenoon, in 

 the Glen Falloch. Endrick contains pike, perch, and 

 roach, or, as they are there termed, braize. A few sea- 



