136 THE SCOTTISH ANGLER. 



near all of which good fishing is to be had, especially 

 during a rainy season. The fisheries on the Naver, 

 the Helmsdale, and the Brora, draw an annual rental 

 of about L.I 700, their produce averaging in value 

 L.6800. The produce of Brora and Shin in 1806, 

 amounted to 44,811 salmon and grilses. 



KINCARDINE. 



The rivers in this shire, if we except the Dee and 

 North Esk, which partly water it, are small, although 

 well stocked with fish. The Cowie, the Carron, and 

 the Bervie waters, deserve notice"; they are ascended 

 during floods by salmon and sea trout. The Dye and 

 its tributaries, the Feugh and Avon, enter Dee oppo- 

 site Banchory. The Luther also runs through the 

 county, falling into the North Esk, and contains num- 

 bers of small trout. There are no lochs within the 

 county worthy of the angler's attention. The rental of 

 the North Esk is estimated at L.2400 annually ; that 

 of the other waters in this county does not exceed 

 L.300. 



ROSS-SHIllE. 



The investigations of the angler have as yet been 

 very partially extended to this county. Such, how- 

 ever, as have visited it, allow a good repute to the nu- 

 merous streams by which it is intersected the outlets 

 many of them of lochs and tarns, where the trout are 

 large and well conditioned, feeding, as they do, over 

 rich and weedy soils. Among the more important wa- 

 ters, we may mention the Oikel, which bounds Ross- 

 shire on the north-east ; the Conan, running into the 

 Cromarty Firth, near Dingwall ; the Ewe, from Loch 

 Maree ; and the Carron from Loch Leven ; which two 

 waters, along with the Shiel, Croe, and others of minor 

 note, belong to the western coast. Conan is a clark t 



