THE NAVER AND BORGIE 259 



It will be noticed that Beat 6 ends at Apagill Burn. This is 2 

 miles above the road bridge at Invernaver. This section is reserved 

 for Skelpick Lodge alone. 



In the tidal water below the road bridge the public, including 

 visitors staying at Bettyhill Hotel, are allowed the privilege of fishing. 

 In the summer time, I understand, a good many sea-trout may be 

 got here. 



The Mallart, the tributary which joins the Naver a short distance 

 below the loch, is a river 6J miles in length. It flows out of Loch 

 Car'-an-Thearnay at the foot of Ben Klibreck. It descends about 

 325 feet in its short course, and is a pretty rough stream. A fall 

 which exists near the mouth was formerly a serious obstacle to the 

 ascent of fish, but in 1900, and again in 1901, blasting operations 

 were carried on, and fish now ascend without great difficulty when 

 the river is at proper height. The Mallart is fished by the tenant 

 of Ben Klibreck Lodge, and this tenant acquires the second Khifail 

 rod mentioned above from 1st August to the end of the season. 



EIVEK BOEGIE. 



This little river flows out of a chain of three lochs which are 

 situated north of Loch Naver, and about midway between Altnaharra 

 and Tongue. Separated from the Lower Naver by a ridge of rocky 

 land, the Borgie winds in a north-easterly direction, converging 

 towards the Naver, and enters the western extremity of Torrisdale 

 Bay. Between the mouths of the two rivers, as already indicated, 

 there is about a mile of most beautiful sandy beach. The illustration 

 shows Torrisdale Bay as seen from the mouth of the Borgie looking 

 out to the Pentland Firth. The unbroken water on the left is the 

 river water flowing out past the rocky point where, in summer, 

 a net is regularly fished. The New Statistical Account has it that 

 " There is a salmon-fishing upon the water of Borgie where on an 

 average 2000 fish are caught yearly," but that was in J845. 



There is a considerable tidal lagoon behind the sandy beach of 

 the bay, and, on the western side of this, where a wild little burn 

 enters, the village of Torrisdale is situated. On ascending the course 

 of the stream the channel soon becomes narrow and rocky, and some 

 distance above the first bend a rather serious fall occurs. It is not 

 an insuperable barrier to fish, but is quite sufficient to prevent 

 ascent so long as the river water remains cold in spring. Except in 

 unusually mild seasons fish need hardly be expected above the fall till 

 May. Below the fall, however, are several fair-sized pools, where with 



