AND ANGLING SONGS. 2Q 



CIV. 

 And yet to me, a life and grace He recover- 



eth ground in 



Environ them, which find no place Border-land, 



and windeth 



Apart from human dwelling ; U P linc 



The joy of beauty undisturb'd 

 The sympathy which flows uncurb'd 



From the heart's fountain welling. 



cv. 



Here, on the tryst-ground of regard, 

 Embrace the Angler and the Bard, 



And interchange their greetings ; 

 Here ; not among the crags and storms, 

 But circled by familiar forms, 



They hold their kindred meetings. 



SUTHERLANDSHIRE. 



AN invitation from the late Mr. Andrew Young to fish the 

 Shin, led me, in 1850, to make arrangements for visiting Suther- 

 landshire, and forming an acquaintance with its numerous rivers 

 and lakes. I had previously met Mr. Young at the house of my 

 friend, the late James Wilson, Esq., F.R.S.E., brother of Chris- 

 topher North, and listened with pleasure to the account of his 

 experiments in salmon breeding and marking the results of 

 which, although corroborated by those of similar experiments 

 made at Stormonthfield and elsewhere, are still received with 

 some measure of incredulity on Tweed- side. My quarters, while 

 on Shin-side, were divided betwixt Lairg and Achinduich the 

 latter a farm-house in connexion with extensive sheep-walks. 



