CHAPTEE XIV. 



THE BEAULY DISTRICT. 



EIVEES BEAULY, GLASS, FARRAR, CANNICH, AND AFFRIC. 



ANGLING SEASON : February llth to October 15th. 

 NETTING SEASON : February llth to August 26th. 



No District Fishery Board, but right of salmon fishing over practically the whole district 

 is held by Lord Lovat. Factor J. T. Garrioch, Esq., Lovat Estates Office, Beauly. 



THE river Beauly, like the river Conon, is of a complex nature ; it 

 is not a simple river with steep upper waters gradually becoming 

 reduced to more easy gradients as it reaches the sea, and with in- 

 flowing streams distinctly subordinate in character to the one main 

 river. The case is not so extreme as that of the Kyle of Sutherland, 

 but is sufficiently well marked to be obvious even in the names 

 given to the river at certain parts. It is, for instance, matter of 

 some doubt where the river ceases to be the Glass and to become 

 the Beauly. The name Glass is still given to the Strath, and only the 

 last few miles, from about Eilean Aigas, have at times been called 

 the Beauly. It is convenient, however, to regard the Beauly as 

 commencing at the junction of the Glass and the Farrar. 



The Glass is formed by the junction of the Affric with a compar- 

 atively unimportant stream which drains the Guisachan Forest. 

 The head waters of the Affric itself are of no interest to salmon 

 fishers, because fish cannot get there owing to the impassable falls 

 in the fearsome gorge below Loch Beneveian (Beinn a Mheadhoin), 

 where the stream drops some 400 feet in about a couple of miles 

 a place well worth seeing by those who have good heads ; but the 

 Dog Fall and the Badger Fall are quite without hope for the salmon. 



Glen Affric Forest and Glencannich Forest march, and are very 

 similar in character. Each has two considerable lochs at practically 

 the same level above the sea, and each is scooped out of splendid 

 hills 3000 to 3700 feet high. 



