THE GLEN. 301 



secluded mill-dam, overshadowed on each side by 

 overhanging woods, in which there are numbers of 

 pike, besides large trout. But the latter can only be 

 taken by dipping with the natural fly, or shade-fish- 

 ing with worm, caterpillar, or caddis, on account of 

 the wood. This river runs both over a bed of fine 

 gravel and mud in some parts, but both alike perfectly 

 free from snags and other nuisances ; while the shores 

 are, for the most part, flat and shelving ; thus rendering 

 it upon the whole a very pleasant river to fish. The 

 trout are medium-sized, well-grown fish. 



I recollect being on the banks of the Bowmont early 

 one morning in July, just at daybreak, between two 

 and three o'clock, and putting a couple of moderately 

 large yellowish dun moth flies on my cast, soon hauled 

 ashore half a dozen fine large trout ; but when daylight 

 had fairly set in, they suddenly ceased to rise either at the 

 moths, or at any other kind of fly I could think of ; and 

 as there was a slight freshet in the river, from a heavy 

 shower the previous day, I at once attached the minnow- 

 tackle, and trolled during the remainder of the day, and 

 on discontinuing operations, had every reason to be 

 satisfied with my day's work ; having taken five dozen 

 fine fish, several of which weighed three-quarters of a 

 pound. 



THE GrLEN. 



We come now to the Glen, the name which the 

 Bowmont assumes after receiving the College at Kirk- 

 Newton, which after winding through the pleasant haughs 



