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with pools, and good ground for trout all the 

 way to Inveruiy. There are two or three pools 

 near Artannes, which should not be overlooked. 

 There is a capital inn at Inveruiy no better in 

 Scotland and great kindness is paid to wet- 

 footed and weary anglers. 



Jnfrerurg. 



About fifty years ago there was good salmon 

 fishing here. The rent of a good piece of water 

 was about 1 per year and the first clean fish ; 

 but the cruives below Granholm were then open 

 three days a-week, and I know those still living 

 who killed their 40, and sometimes 50, Ibs. 

 weight. 



This is a convenient place to stop at. The 

 station faces the inn, and we have had ex- 

 perience of its comforts, both as regards its beds 

 and its dinners ; and it is not very difficult to 

 obtain fishing, I believe, in this quarter, by ap- 

 plying to the innkeeper, Mr Annand of the 

 Kintore Arms. 



I have fished in the Ury, which here joins the 

 Don ; but, although it is said to be a good river 



