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ELGINSHIRE OR MORAY. 



Spey washes the south-east boundary of this county. 

 As a salmon river, it has no equal in Scotland ; the 

 fishing, belonging to the Duke of Gordon, at its mouth, 

 is rented for considerably more than L.6000 a-year. 

 It affords also capital rod-fishing. Findhorn runs pa- 

 rallel to it, on the north side, and is reckoned an ex- 

 cellent salmon stream, being large and rapid. Lossie 

 is the only other water worthy of notice in this shire ; 

 it rises from the hills of Dallas, and, as a good angling 

 river, is not behind Spey and Findhorn. The lochs 

 in this county are not numerous : Spynie and Loch-na- 

 Bee form the principal, both containing pike, the latter 

 some trout. The salmon flies in use among the nor- 

 thern counties are very similar to those employed in 

 the south of Scotland, although perhaps of a larger 

 size, and somewhat more fanciful. 



The fisheries in this county, taken in connection 

 with those of Nairn, are valued at L. 25,000 annually. 



BANFFSHIRE. 



Banffshire is watered by numerous streams, contain- 

 ing salmon and trout in considerable quantities. At the 

 head of these is the river/ Spey, rising in the county of 

 Inverness, from the western district of Badenoch. Its 

 tributaries, in Banffshire, are the Avon, the Fiddich, 

 and the Dullan. Avon receives the Livet and the 

 Tervie, and many smaller waters empty themselves into 

 Spey from the south. Besides these, we find the De- 

 veron, an excellent angling stream, falling into the sea 

 at Banff. It is joined, above Rothiemay, by the Isla, 

 and farther up by the Bogie, both good trouting rivers. 

 There is an inn at Tomantoul on the Avon/ where the 

 angler may put up ; also on the Spey, at Ballindalloch, 

 Aberlour, Rothes, and Fochabers. Keith on the Isla, 



