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its ancient and learned university, we have two considerable rivers, 

 the Dee and the Don. The first has a range of one hundred miles, 

 and flows through tracts of wild and beautiful mountain scenery, 

 calculated to rivet its remembrance on the memory for a lifetime. 

 Before the river arrives at Balliter, it receives the waters of the 

 Clume, Gairn, Mulch, and Geldie, all abounding with swarms of 

 smallish trout ; and on some of whose banks we have rural scenes 

 of surpassing beauty. The Dee fishing, on the whole, is excellent ; 

 and Castleton, Balliter, Aboyne, and Kirkardine O'Neil, are con- 

 venient stations for reaching its best angling localities. 



The Don enters the German Ocean at the town of Old Aberdeen. 

 It has a higher reputation among fly -fishers than even the Dee. It 

 is sixty miles in length, and it has several tributaries of note, 

 among which are the Bucket and Esset. The Urr joins the main 

 river also at the neat village of Inverury. Trout are frequently 

 taken here, of five and six pounds weight. Trolling is very success- 

 fully practised in the Urr. The Kellack, Calpic, Shevock, and Gady, 

 are small streams, which are sometimes visited by travelling 

 anglers. The trout in them are dwarfish. It has been surmised, 

 by anglers who have frequented the Don and its waters for some 

 years, that it has recently fallen off a good deal from its former 

 prolific supply of salmon and trout. We think there is no good 

 ground for this opinion. The best stations on the river are Alford, 

 Inverury, and Kintore. 



Pressing southward into the counties of Kincardine, Forfar, and 

 Perthshire, we meet with many noble fishing waters. 

 ^ One of the most enticing fishing localities in this direction is the 

 river Tay, and its dependent waters. These embrace an extensive 

 range of angling streams, both for the salmon and trout. To visit 

 all these places would take a considerable time ; but those who 

 can afford that time need be under no apprehension of lacking any 

 reasonable amount of sport. This river rises out of the high 

 grounds of Larne. Soon after it leaves its parent springs, it 

 receives the waters of many small bums and rivulets, and then 

 enters into Loch Dochart. It falls into another sheet of water, 

 called Loch Tay ; and issuing from it at Kenmore, the Tay is 

 joined by another stream, called the Lyon. They jointly proceed 

 to Athol, receiving other two feeders, the Logierait and the Tummel 

 The main river then flows on to Perth, and enters the German 

 Ocean at Dundee. There is splendid salmon and trout fishing in. 

 all these waters. 



The Garry springs from Loch Garry, and is about thirty miles in 

 length. The Erochkie, the Bruar, and the Tilt, are its chief feeders. 

 There is capital trouting in all these places. 



Near Dunkeld, there are a number of lakes which abound with 

 trout, pike, perch, &c. The principal of these are Loch Ard, Lock 

 Cmiglush, Loch of the Lows, Bntterstone Loch, Loch Eotnel, Loch 

 Aishnie, Loch Cluny, and Loch Drumellie. 



The river Ida is a good stream : it falls into the Tay. It has 



