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can be had at Edinburgh or Glasgow for Stirling, and 

 thence for Buckly vie or any other station on the Forth 

 and Clyde line. Mr. Mitchell, the hotel-keeper at 

 Aberfoyle, can have a conveyance waiting any train, 

 if notified by a letter posted at Edinburgh before 

 3.30 the day previous, or in London in time for the 

 evening mails two days before. 



The liberty of fishing in Loch Ard is to be had 

 by moderate payment, and under fair arrangements. 

 The fishing of the loch is rented by Mr. Dick, formerly 

 of Glasgow, who has had a house and shootings in 

 the district for more than thirty years, and was the 

 first man that ever paid sporting-rent to the dukes 

 of Montrose ; and Mr. Dick, instead of restricting 

 angling leave to his friends or to importunate visitors, 

 very properly and liberally throws the loch open to 

 the public at a charge merely covering expenses. He 

 keeps seven or eight smart boats, for the use of one of 

 which, leave to angle, and the services of a boatman, 

 the charge is 6s. a-day. Mr. Dick's boats are under 

 charge of a family named Cleland, very intelligent and 

 obliging young men, on whose advice the stranger 

 angler will do well to rest and be thankful. At times 

 especially when the Glasgow and Stirling Angling 

 Clubs have their annual competitions boats are apt 

 to be scarce ; and it is prudent to try to engage a boat 

 by writing, beforehand, with time for an answer, to 

 Mr. D. Cleland, Loch Ard, Aberfoyle, by Stirling. 



