12 AUTUMNS ON THE SPEY. 



ultimately reunite just before reaching the sea, 

 their tortuous course is sufficient to perplex even 

 the experienced salmon-fisher, whose geographi- 

 cal recollections of the maze of last autumn are 

 completely obliterated by the new vagaries in 

 which the river has indulged during the " spates" 

 of the previous winter. 



