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connected with, the place, and are handed down from 

 generation to generation in the minds of the rustic 

 inhabitants of the neighbourhood. In many places 

 the mountains on the north side of the river are 

 lofty and rugged, and present immeasurable tracts of 

 brown heath, and large spaces occupied with grey 

 rocks, and scattered stones, thrown about in the 

 most fantastic and chaotic confusion. There are 

 deep glens and ravines, covered over with short 

 stumpy brushwood, which renders walking both 

 treacherous and dangerous. We stammer, however, 

 here and there, upon spots of great beauty, which 

 surprise and delight us for the toil of our wander- 

 ings. We meet with the clear and silvery brook at 

 every turn of the landscape, on spots of the margin 

 of which grows the palmy willow, drooping over 

 the murmuring waters, as they leave the upland 

 wastes to visit the distant ocean, and be absorbed in 

 its bosom. 



The Cluden Water is a favourite locality in the 

 estimation of the Dumfries anglers. It has a run of 

 about twenty miles, and is well stocked with trout, 

 and likewise with salmon-trout, when the water is 

 in a fit state for this particular fish. There are 

 some small feeders of the Cluden in which there is 

 an abundance of trout, though but of inferior size. 

 The Cairn Water is also a good trouting stream, and 

 will afford a fair day's sport to the tourist. Worm 

 fishing, as well as the minnow, when the waters are 

 suitable after summer rains, are very successful 

 modes of sport in these tributaries of the Nith. 



