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weakly and exhausted state. Rogie falls on the 

 Black-water are much more frequently ascended 

 than those of Conan, being lower, and having on 

 one side of them a detached run, over the precipi- 

 tate part of which salmon can easily toss themselves 

 when the river is in any degree flooded. A cruive, 

 however, is placed during the open season at the 

 bottom of this passage. 



There is a good deal of picturesque beauty about 

 the Rogie falls, but they scarcely equal those of 

 Conan. On one side of them wave graceful birch- 

 trees, of natural growth; the other is what may 

 be termed a bare ascent, although covered with 

 heather and furze-bushes, broom and juniper. The 

 Black-water is a first-rate angling stream, being 

 ascended by the larger proportion of fish that find 

 their way over the cruives at Conan mouth. The 

 part of it immediately below the falls is rocky, and 

 contains some choice water for the rod. Besides 

 salmon, some portions of it contain beautiful yellow- 

 trout, weighing in general from one to five pounds. 

 These may be taken with the fly, but more easily 

 with a small par, although pike are apt too frequent- 

 ly to interfere with this bait. I once t caught four trout 

 of betwixt three or four pounds weight each, a short 

 way above the Rogie falls, while trolling with wire 

 tackle and the upper half of a smaller fish. These 

 fellows did not display much cunning, but darted 

 voraciously at the mangled lure, assailing it with 

 the eagerness of a shark, and by no means uninclin- 



