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^ orange head, topping in tail, varied with a 

 black-red hackle, and light green silk body 

 ribbed with gold twist. Hook B or BE. 



No. 6. A dark brown fly, brown red hackle 

 and body, ribbed with gold twist, and glede 

 wings, varied with brown spotted turkey tail 

 feather or mallard, one of each. Hook No. 8 

 or 9, B for low water. 



There is a good deal of guinea hen and teal 

 feathers used in the flies of these northern 

 rivers, which appears to be an improvement, 

 with jungle-cock and wood-duck. 



There is a river issues out of Loch Naver, 

 a short way from the source of the Thurso, 

 which falls into the sea in the same direction 

 west of the town of Thurso ; it has a w^inding 

 course, and would be a very good river for 

 salmon were it well preserved. 



There are numerous rivers running into the 

 firths on the east side of Sutherland, which 

 produce salmon and fine trout that run up 

 from the sea : — the Wick and Helmsdale in 

 Caithness, the Brora near Golspie, the Dornoch 

 into which the river Shin flows, Drummond and 

 Loch Clash, Dingwall river and lake, and the 

 river Beauley at the head of the Murray Firth. 



