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neither of Monar in Strath- Orrin, both of which are well 

 spoken of by such as have visited them. The adjoin- 

 ing very brief extracts from another epistolary paper, 

 offered to the inspection of Mr Wandle-weir, are per- 

 haps worthy of perusal, relating as they do to the more 

 prominent waters in the western districts of the same 

 shire. 



WESTERN DISTRICTS OF ROSS-SHIRE. 



I HAVE just angled in the Ewe, Gruinyard, Torridon, 

 Carron and Shiel waters, and may safely assert that, 

 taking them in the mass, they stand altogether unri- 

 valled. The Ewe, issuing from Loch Maree, and just- 

 ly celebrated by Sir Humphrey Davy, consists mere- 

 ly of two or three pools, but these of such a quality, 

 that at certain times a couple of skilful rods might 

 load a horse with salmon grilse and sea-trout. The 

 fish, however, are capricious, and refuse to rise during 

 particular states of the water, which, owing to the 

 influence of the wind on Loch Maree, is constantly 

 varying. The loch itself affords what may, in that 

 district, be termed poor angling. The salmon find 

 their way into it with some difficulty, and yellow 

 trout, though occasionally to be met with, are by no 

 means very abundant. Char, resembling those of 

 Windermere, inhabit its deep places, but are not to 

 be captured with the fly. The scenery is grandly 

 wild, yet scarcely so savage as that on the banks of 

 the Torridon, which present to the eye a continued 

 surface of loose and scattered rocks, singularly ar- 



