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degree, of a real Highland stream. It has become 

 of great repute among fashionable anglers of late 

 years ; and it is unquestionably a very noble water 

 for piscatory exploits. This wild and rushing river 

 rises out of a sheet of water called Loch Spey, near 

 to Eadenoch and Genroy, in Inverness- shire. We 

 are told by Colonel Thornton, that there was a pike 

 taken out of this loch of the astonishing weight of 

 one hundred and forty -six pounds, and that he him- 

 self caught one of forty '-eight. The entire length of 

 the Spey has been variously estimated from eighty 

 to one hundred miles. Tor the first twenty miles 

 of its course, it flows through a singularly wild and 

 mountainous region, full of interest to the lover of 

 this kind of scenery. Before, and in the vicinity of, 

 the small village, where the angler can find rather 

 roughish accommodation, called Kingussie, the Spey 

 receives the waters of three feeders, Calder, Trium, 

 and Tromie waters, the two latter of which spring 

 from Lochs Quich, Yroltan, and Turlich, which 

 abound with rich and large trout. These feeders 

 are in summer often so low that rod-fishing is out of 

 the question ; but after rain, when the waters are 

 subsiding, it is quite marvellous what quantities of 

 fish can be taken out of them in two or three hours. 

 Everything that bears the most distant resemblance 

 to a fly, is greedily seized ; indeed, one grows abso- 

 lutely tired with the sport. "We are apt to lie down 

 on some heathy knoll, and gaze on the shadows 

 chasing each other along the mountain's brow. 

 How grand are some of the sky- views in this neigh- 



