PART II. 



SOUTH WESTERN DIVISION, 



EMBRACING THE COUNTIES OF 

 RENFREW, AYR, DUMFRIES, KIRKCUDBRIGHT, AND WIGTON. 



WE have taken the angler, in the preceding part, 

 over an interesting section of the country, and placed 

 him on the banks of some of the very finest 

 streams that any one can visit. We now come to 

 another piscatory tonr, along the South- Western 

 part of Scotland, taking Glasgow as our centre of 

 observation and departure, The angler has a ready 

 and commodious means of transit to many of the 

 rivers in this district, by the South- Western Rail- 

 way to Carlisle. This skirts along the low and fer- 

 tile parts of the country in the form of a half- circle, 

 and joins the great trunk of the Caledonian Railway 

 near to Gretna Green. 



The various rivers and streams in this direction 

 are not so large, nor so highly celebrated in angling 

 history and exploits, as the Tweed and the Clyde, 

 with their tributary waters, but they are, on the 



