110 ABERDEENSHIRE. 



Berwick to our French neighbours, and who ate 

 them, no doubt, at the crack Palais Royal Res- 

 taurants, as 'saumon a 1'Ecosse.' The trout-fisher 

 cannot fail, on a fine day, with gentle breezes, to 

 obtain good sport on almost any part of the dead 

 water, from Kintore to Fintray, and from which, 

 for three or four miles there are many capital 

 streams, where large trout are to be found ' at 

 home ;' but they know little of creepers or May- 

 fly fishing here, neither are they much skilled in 

 the partail, in fact, it is an importation from the 

 Tweed, and but very lately seen there. In early 

 spring and in rapid places, no doubt, as I have 

 said, Brown's phantom minnow is sometimes 

 very killing. But fly is the best after all, for a 

 long day's amusement, and you are less fatigu- 

 ed than with the other more laborious modes of 

 capture. 



I may mention a circumstance that occurred 

 here about twelve years ago, and at a time, I 

 believe, when a flood that carried away a part of 

 the cruives, which are placed on the river a little 

 above Old Aberdeen. I took five clean salmon 

 out of the Manse Pool in one afternoon, and at 

 the Coval Pool, two more in the evening ; and, 

 curious enough, the whole five were caught 



