AND FISHING. 53 



gentry; and crowded with visitors, laying in a new 

 stock of health amid the mountain breezes. Lodg- 

 ings in the village are in very great request; the 

 quantity of finnoch and salmon killed there in the 

 season by fly-fishing is very great. 



New Sporting Mag. July. 



The New Sporting Magazine for July, 1834, 

 observes that a Dr. Robertson, supposed to be 

 one of the best fishers in the county, took, in Au- 

 gust, 1833, at Ballater, in one day, (in a small 

 loch, and adjoining the stream,) thirty-six dozen 

 of trout, and a friend killed, on the same day, 

 twenty-five dozen ; these were all about the size 

 of a herring, the trout will seldom exceed this size 

 in the small mountain streams. 



Dr. Davy remarked, in one of his lectures at 

 the Royal Institution, that those trout were the 

 best which frequent waters flowing over calca- 

 reous soil, he accounted for this matter on philo- 

 sophical principles, and the truth of his theory is 

 fully confirmed by the superiority of Irish trout, 

 the beds of many of the rivers consisting entirely 

 of limestone. 



Mr. Pakenham let his fishery at Bally shannon 

 for twelve hundred pounds per year; in 1808, the 

 fish was as high as fourteen pence per pound. In 

 Lough Erne trout increase in size so wonderfully, 



