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" Great turbots and late suppers lead 

 To debt, disgrace, and abject need. 

 The border of the broadest dish 

 Lay hid beneath the monster fish." 



In the southern sections of the county of Inver- 

 ness, there are several lochs and small streams, more 

 or less connected with them, in which there is an 

 abundance of fish. The chief of these inland lakes 

 are Loch Quoich, Loch Arkop, Loch Chinie, Loch 

 Shiel, Loch Eylt, Loch Duich, Loch Marrer, Loch 

 Hourn, and Loch Alsh. There are likewise a few 

 small lakes and rivulets in the Isle of Sky, separated 

 from the main land of Inverness-shire by the narrow 

 strait called the Sound of Skat , which will afford the 

 tourist some sport. The scenery of the island, which 

 is forty-five miles in length, and about five or six 

 in breadth, is magnificent, and certainly not sur- 

 passed by any portion of the Highlands. Portree is 

 the principal town, but the angler may obtain accom- 

 modation at Eroadford, Stein, and Kyle-akin. "We 

 once saw a most splendid basket of red trout taken 

 out of the streams in the vicinity of Portree, aver- 

 aging upwards of three quarters of a pound each. 

 They were all captured by gaudy flies. 



When the angler is on the Beauly, he is little 

 more than a stone throw from the rivers of Ross and 

 Cromarty The chief of these is the Conan, which 

 traverses a section of the county of five-and-thirty 

 miles in extent. It springs out of a lake called 

 Loch Eoshk, or Chroisg, situated in the most wild 

 and unfrequented part of this Highland district, 



