CORRACH-BAH ; OR, 



compliment to the salmo-feroxes of Loch Awe. We left 

 the Broomielaw at seven o'clock on a fresh sunny morning, 

 and paddled merrily down the Clyde. The fat rosy 

 steward, with his quaint face of good-nature, was in high 

 feather, and frequent in his assurances that we might 

 expect " a pleesant sail." Under his auspices we were 

 soon seated at a good breakfast of whitings taken out of 

 the firth the night before. By the time we had discussed 

 them, we were coasting the shingly beach of Loch Long ; 

 and having touched at Ardentinny, and viewed the 

 fairyland of Glenfinart, its emerald lawn, and rampart of 

 brown hill and tangled wood, we struck into the bleak 

 Loch Goil. A short time brought us alongside of its 

 primitive quay, where we deposited ourselves and luggage 

 in the mongrel kind of coach, half-boat half-omnibus, 

 which was to convey us across the isthmus separating 

 Loch Goil from Loch Fine. Creeping up one side of the 

 hill at a tortoise pace, we rattled down the other at a 

 gallop, by way of a change. A very small steamboat 

 plies between St Catrine's and Inverary, and I was in 

 the act of superintending the embarkation of my chattels, 

 when a bustling official assured me that he would see them 

 all safe. I put faith in him, and immediately began a 

 discussion with two fellow-travellers about the whale that 

 had been harpooned shortly before in the loch or the hill 

 of Dunnequaigh or the Duke's Castle or I don't recollect 

 what. Upon landing at Inverary my trolling-rods were 

 missing, and no " satisfaction "to be had, as my officious 

 friend was safe on the opposite shore, and my poor rods 



