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Erom the higher districts of the Etive, the dis- 

 tance to Loch Leven, through by the famous moun- 

 tain defile, called Grlencoe, is not above twelve or 

 fourteen miles. This route the angler should take, 

 as this is a spot of country rendered memorable by 

 the great massacre which took place in it in 1692 

 In passing through this narrow pass, the angler will 

 fall in with the stream called the Cona, celebrated, 

 it is said, as the birth-place of Ossian. On each 

 side of the banks of this water, a range of lofty hills 

 spring perpendicularly to the height of two thousand 

 feet, throwing a shadowy gloom over the vale, which 

 makes a deep impression on the mind of most tra- 

 vellers. The trout are but very small in the Cona, 

 but when the water is in good order, they can be 

 procured in considerable numbers. 



Loch Crenan is near this part of the county, and 

 has the Crenan river, and the Euie, "Ore, Dergan, 

 and Tendal, as supplemental waters. There is good 

 fishing in all these places. 



Should the angler set out from Glasgow by steamer, 

 direct for Oban, he will fall in with a multitude of 

 excellent sporting waters in the vicinity of this well 

 known travelling station to the Western Highlands. 

 ]^ear the town, we have the stream called the 

 Euchar, which springs out of Loch Scauradalc, and 

 the Oude from another lake, called Trallaig. There 

 ure ten or a dozen lochs, within a circuit of five or 

 six miles of Oban, in which there is splendid trout . 

 fishing. There is one lake in particular, called 

 Donolly Beg Loch, in which there is a peculiar spc- 



