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and Huntley on the Deveron, are also well provided 

 with accommodation. 



ABERDEENSHIRE. 



Although possessing several distinguished waters, 

 Aberdeenshire is barely entitled to the praise of the 

 angler. Some of its streams, the Dee especially, are 

 rocky and rapid prime haunts of the salmon, but fre- 

 quented indifferently by good-sized river trout : others, 

 however, the lower parts of the Don and the Ythan, 

 are reckoned excellent, flowing, as they do, through a 

 richer soil. Salmon, in any quantity, ascend Don only 

 a short distance. The Urie, which falls into it at In- 

 verury, with its tributaries, the Gadie, Shevock, and 

 Lochter, is a sluggish water, running through a pastoral 

 country, and contains a fair allowance of fish. The 

 other leading streams in this shire are the Ugie, formed 

 of the Strichen and Deer waters, and the Deveron. 

 The tributaries of Dee are principally Luchar and Gor- 

 mack burns, the water of Gairden, the Muick, the 

 Ouich, Lui, and water of Geauley. 



Its lochs are Loch Muick, containing numbers of 

 small trout, Loch of Skene, well provided with pike 

 and perch, Loch Cannord, Loch Callader, and Brota- 

 chan. 



The best fishing stations are at Ballater on the Dee, 

 about forty-two miles from Aberdeen, also at Castleton 

 of Braemar. 



The average annual number of salmon and grilses, 

 taken betwixt the years 1813 and 1824, amounted to 

 52,862 on the Dee, and 40,677 on the Don. 



FORFARSHIRE. 



The North and South Esks, in Forfarshire, are 

 reckoned good salmon streams. The former flowing 



