184 EXTRACTS FROM NOTE-BOOKS. CH. XXXII. 



SCOTCH STREAMS AND LAKES. 



CHAPTEE XXXII. 



Rivers, Streams, and Lakes in Scotland — The Tweed — The 

 Lakes and Streams of Argyleshire — Loch Awe — A Contest 

 with a Salmo ferox — Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, and Suther- 

 land — Pike not an injurious destroyer of Trout — Char — The 

 River Shin — Pertinacity of Salmon in ascending Streams — 

 The Beauly — The Findhorn— The Spey — The Dee — Decrease 

 in the number of Salmon ; its causes and its cure — Extent of 

 the trade of Fly-making. 



Many and varied are the streams and lakes of 

 Scotland, and scarcely any two of them contain 

 trout of exactly similar appearance. Although of 

 the same species, and alike in all the essential 

 parts of their anatomy, etc., in outward appearance, 

 shape, and colour, trout vary more than any other 

 fish. As I have before observed, these fish have 

 the power of either voluntarily or involuntarily 

 taking, to a remarkable degree, the colour of the 

 water in which they live. In the same way do 

 they derive their brown and yellow hue from the 



