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Stemster, Toftingall, Calam, and Shurery. These in 

 general abound in trout, and several of them are access- 

 ible to the salmon. There are small towns and inns 

 at the mouth of every considerable river and along the 

 coast, although the inland districts are but scantily 

 supplied with accommodation for the angler. The 

 number of fish killed in the river Thurso and bay, 

 amounted, in 1822, to 5908 ; in 1823, to 8067; and in 

 1 824, to 5767, salmon and grilses. 



SUTHERLANDSHIRE. 



Although little frequented by the angler, this county 

 offers a variety of sporting waters, unequalled by any 

 other in Scotland. It teems with lochs and rivers, the 

 former abundantly stored with fine trout and char, 

 while the latter are much visited by salmon and whit- 

 lings. The gillaroo and salmo ferox of Loch Awe are 

 found in many places. Of streams in Sutherland, the 

 principal are the Naver, from a loch of the same name 

 falling into the sea at the bay of Torresdale; the Helms- 

 dale, from Loch Baden, in which salmon abound ; the 

 Halladale, the Brora, from Loch Brora, where the 

 angling is first-rate Shiberscross water is its principal 

 feeder ; the Fleet, the Strathy, and the Shin, a good 

 salmon river, where the fish run large, and are killed 

 in great numbers at a linn and waterfall some way up ; 

 near it are the Cassly, remarkable for the clearness and 

 small size of its salmon ; and the Oikel, a water of con- 

 siderable size, which joins the Shin above Dornoch. 

 The chief lochs are Shin, Naver, Assynt, Baden, Hope, 

 More, Layghal, Brora, and Ulaball. Loch Shin, the 

 tamest and least romantic of the lochs in Sutherland, 

 is a large expanse of water, about twenty-four miles in 

 length ; many of the others are of a considerable size, 

 arid most of them contain trout in great quantities. 



