186 



dear that few could purchase it ; Mr. Yarrell says, 

 it was double the price of salmon, and ten times 

 higher than that of either turhot or cod. " In 

 1466, pike was one of the chief dishes in the High 

 Church festivals given by George Neville, Arch- 

 bishop of York. In Henry the Eighth's time those 

 watery tyrants fetched as much again as household 

 lamb in February, and a very small pickerel would 

 sell higher than a fat capon." 



The North Queich, and the South Queich, are 

 the two chief feeders of Lochleven. There is good 

 fishing in both these streams, except in very dry 

 and sultry weather. "We have found all kinds of 

 winged flies, of a lightish colour, most successful in 

 these waters. 



The antiquities of Pifeshire are numerous, and its 

 ecclesiastical remains and history interesting. There 

 is a great number and variety of vestiges of the 

 Caledonian and Pictish inhabitants, and of their 

 Roman and Danish invaders. There are also many 

 military forts, mounds of encampments, groups of 

 Druidical lithoi, cairns, tumuli, barrows, stone cof- 

 fins, skeletons, Celtic sepulchral urns, spears and 

 arrow heads of flint, swords, and battle-axes of brass 

 and bell-metal/ crosses, fonts, beads, Eoman coins, 

 &c. All these are very interesting to such anglers 

 as have a taste for antiquarian researches. 



Before the angler quits the rivers of Eifeshire, he 

 should, if he have any taste for learning and philoso- 

 phy, pay a visit to the University of St. Andrews. 

 There is much to interest a reflective mind in this 



