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Kingie, which enters the Upper Garry rather more than a mile 

 below Loch Quoich, from the south. It rises on the slopes of 

 Lochiel's country, across the divide from Glen Dessarg at the top of 

 Loch Arkaig. The source of the Kingie and the source of the 

 Quoich are about equidistant from the mouth of the river, each 

 being about three miles short of the source of the Gairowan. The 

 glen of the Kingie is steep and wild, a splendid example of a 

 remote Highland fastness. The river is subject to very rapid floods, 

 but in many parts the spawning ground is very fine, and the water 

 is of course clear as crystal at all times. At Lochan is the site of 

 an old loch basin, and the river here becomes still as it meanders 

 through the old lake bed. There is no lack of rain in the district. 

 The beauties of the Kingie were lost to me not long ago by torrents 

 of rain and a tempestuous wind. I had made an expedition in 

 November to mark fish, and was quite drowned out. The record 

 of rainfall hanging in the billiard room of Glenquoich Lodge, where 

 most hospitable shelter was offered, made a subject of melancholy 

 study. There seems to be some pride locally in the fact that 

 Glenquoich holds the record in this respect. The average is 108 

 inches in the year, the maximum being about 150. When I was 

 there the rainfall was 30 inches short and only six weeks to go, 

 but the elements were doing their very best to make up for lost 

 time. 



The Upper Garry is also a beautiful river, though in places the 

 channel is distinctly rough and broken. As a rule, I understand, it 

 is not much fished for salmon, although over 30 have been taken in 

 the autumn. Lord Eandolph Churchill used to be a regular visitor, 

 and succeeded in catching 20 fish one season, but the deer are the 

 chief object of pursuit in these parts. 



In the neighbourhood of Tomdoun Hotel the trout fishing is dis- 

 tinctly good, and visitors there can fish a section of the river and 

 Loch Garry. Loch Poulary is a series of diverticula or expansions 

 of the upper river Garry. It merges with the river, so as to be 

 ill-defined as a loch, but may be said to be about a mile and a half 

 long ; its western portion narrow and from 9 to 23 feet in depth ; 

 its eastern portion a basin half a mile long and a fifth of a mile 

 broad. This basin has been found to have a maximum depth of 47 

 feet, the deep water being confined to a channel in the centre. 



