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those found in the main waters. Gaudy flies are the 

 favourite ones in these localities ; the size, of course, 

 varying with the wind, the season of the year, and 

 the state of the waters. Good and commodious 

 inns will be found for the tourist at Dalmally, Cla- 

 dish, Port Sonachan, and Bunaw. These are very 

 agreeable and necessary things, especially to English 

 piscatory tourists, who are generally very sensitive 

 to all domestic comforts. 



Argyleshire contains many antiquities. The 

 ecclesiastical ruins in lona are well entitled to espe- 

 cial notice. There are in Oronsa the remains of a 

 Cistercian priory, one of the religious antiquities of 

 the Hebrides. After those of lona, of the ancient 

 castles may be mentioned Dunstaffhage, at the 

 entrance of Loch Etive, a square building, in a 

 ruinous state, with round towers at three of the 

 corners, having an old chapel of elegant workman- 

 ship near it ; Ardterinish, or Ardternish, on the 

 sound of Mull ; Sknipnish, in Cantyre ; Kilchurn, 

 at the east end of Loch Awe, and others. There 

 are, in different places of the coast, old "duns," or 

 Danish forts. Druidical circles more or less complete, 

 and cairns, are to ,be seen in different parts. Of 

 natural curiosities, besides Staffa, with its basaltic 

 columns and cave, may be noticed some singular 

 caverns in the parishes of Loch Goyle-head and 

 Strachur, both in Cowal. 



In travelling over these mountainous tracts, and 

 diverging any great distance from fixed and estab- 

 lished resting places, often exposes the angler to 



