138 THE SCOTTISH ANGLER. 



Loch Rosk, near Achnasheen ; Lochs Ledgowan, 

 Achnanault, and Cullen, near Achnanault ; Loch na 

 Feigh, Badienoch, and others, near Grudie Bridge ; 

 Lochs Garve and Achilty, where char are found ; 

 Nech Van, Dramee, and Loch-an-Dhu, near Contln ; 

 Loch Bennachan, in Strathconan ; Loch Bran, &c. &c. 

 Many of these contain great quantities of pike, which 

 do great injury to the trout, by reducing their numbers, 

 although tending materially to increase their size. In 

 Lochs Monar, Ledgowan, and Badienoch, trout, weigh- 

 ing from two or three to ten pounds, are not unfre- 

 quently taken with the fly. We have captured them 

 of a like size on the upper part of the Black Water, 

 angling with a piece of a trout for pike. In Loch Ba- 

 dienoch, a small hill tarn, we took a fish, with the red 

 professor, weighing nearly seven pounds, its length 

 not more than twenty-two inches, and, when cooked, 

 cutting redder than a salmon. There are inns at 

 Strathgarve, Contin ; an excellent one at Achnanault, 

 at Kinlochewe, Jean Town, Craig, Shiel House, &c. 

 There is also a good public-house on the rivers Farrar 

 and Glass, running into Loch Monar. 



NAIRN. 



Findhorn crosses this shire, running towards the 

 north-east, It abounds in salmon, as does also the 

 Nairn, a considerable stream rising in Inverness-shire, 

 on the mountainous district of Badienoch, and falling 

 into the Moray Firth. Loch-an-Dorb is the principal 

 sheet of water in the county. 



CROMARTY. 



No rivers of note water this county ; one of its dis- 

 tricts, however, contains a number of lochs, the prin- 

 cipal of which are Laurger, Ankynoch, Baddagyle, 

 Skinaskiuk, and Battachan. 



