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only a run of seven miles, as it flows out of Locli 

 Shine, a long sheet of water which has more than a 

 dozen small feeders, or rivulets, and which contains 

 line trout, salmon, the salmo ferox, and charr. There 

 are two falls in the Shine. The lower parts of the 

 stream embrace the most favourite stretches of water 

 for the salmon angler, and where, indeed, the larger 

 kinds of trout are taken. 



Loch Shine, twenty-four miles in length, is con- 

 nected with a number of smaller lakes, which, ex- 

 cept for a distance of a few miles, unite it with the 

 ocean. By a walk from the head of the loch, or 

 more properly from Loch Merkeland, the angler will 

 reach Loch Mose, which is joined by a short stretch 

 of running water, and from thence to Loch Laxford, 

 a part of the Atlantic. There is splendid angling 

 in all this watery expanse. It is chiefly by trolling, 

 and the use of the boat, that the largest fish are 

 captured. The two streams called the Tyrie, and 

 Faig, which run into Loch Shine, are full of small 

 trout, great quantities of which can readily be ob- 

 tained after summer rains. There is a small river 

 called the Evlix, having a run of ten miles, falls into 

 the sea at Darnoch, a royal borough, but a bleak 

 and miserable looking place. There are salmon and 

 trout in the stream. 



It is in the Tyrie and Faig that the experiments 

 have been recently carried on by Mr. Young, of 

 Inverness- shire, of transferring the salmon spawn into 

 localities where the fish is not formed. Those ex- 

 periments have been partially successful. This mode 



