132 FISHING RIVERS. 



good trout, some of large size, got here by 

 trolling, to the size of 15 Ibs. 



Stanleg. 



I once sojourned here for a week. It is five 

 or six miles from Perth northwards ; was much 

 delighted with its situation and our quarters, in a 

 small inn at the end of the viUage, near to 

 the large spinning-mills. Nearly all the young 

 population are employed in the spinning-mills, 

 and at early morn the rest of all and sundry is 

 unceremoniously broken at five o'clock, by the 

 blowing of a horn from the centre of the place 

 and very delightful it is to see so many going 

 so early to their daily occupations. There are 

 some capital pools for fish both up and down 

 here. We had the use of a boat while we fished 

 above the Linn of Campsie, a rugged basaltic 

 dyke, which crossed the river at this place, and is 

 the scene where Wull o' the Wyde, in the Fair 

 Maid of Perth, leapt across when he made his 

 escape. The river, when I was there, was IOW T , 

 as I waded across with ease about half-a-mile 

 above this Fall. 



