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towering overhead ; of many a smaller tarn 

 sparkling like a jewel among the hills ; of the 

 ospreys screaming over Loch Luichart, and of 

 beautiful Colonsay with its three long lochs run- 

 ning straight in from the Atlantic, and Loch 

 Sgoltaire among the hills higher up, with its 

 ruined castle and lovely view of Mull through 

 the cleft in the hills by the Cailleach. Perhaps 

 it may be said that I might have seen all these 

 lochs without fishing them. True enough, O 

 sapient critic ; but self-examination compels me 

 to confess that it is most improbable that I 

 should have done so. 



