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deeply shaded with the woods. This flowed into the troughs 

 having their eggs, the overflow going to the ponds. After & 

 thorough examination of the Fisheries we adjourned to a part 

 where excavations were in progress in extension of the ponds 

 Here Lady Maitland and other ladies had a collation all ready 

 for action. We were quickly seated and sumptuously treated. 

 We afterwards took a parting look of the ponds. It was not 

 a place to be hastily quitted. At night we were set down to a 

 banquet where We feasted oif viands and speeches until we 

 separated for the night. 1 supp-lement, with the remarks made 

 by J. Barker Duncan in a Paper read before the Scotch Fisheries 

 Improvement Association in November, 1844, Howieton Fishery. 

 " This Fishery belongs to Sir James Maitland, Stirling. It wa» 

 commenced in 1873. From year to year it has extended and 

 perfected, so as to have gained a world-wide reputation as a 

 fish-breeding establishment. Upwards of ten millions of trout 

 ova are now annually incubated at this fishery. Last season 

 no less than 90,000 yearling trout were delivered from it to all 

 parts of Great Britain and Ireland. Yearlings are recom- 

 mended to its customers as the size for general purposes ; they 

 are strong enough to find their food, thus avoiding the princi- 

 pal cause of mortality among fry, starvation. Two-year-olds 

 are recommended where coarse fish or large trout already exist 

 in the water. — Bulletin of the United States Fuh Commission, 

 1885. Two cotisignments of trout ova and one of salmon were 

 also forwarded successfally to New Zealand, Lochleven trcut 

 is the specialty of the fishery. American brook trout and 

 common trout are also extensively cultivated. Every twenty- 

 four hours about one million gallons of water flow through the 

 pond system which secures thorough aeration." 



92. Still in Howieton. In 

 we take a look at the Geology of 

 elevated ground. The botany 

 greatest profusion, and full bloom 

 rocks are outcropping — they are 

 volcanic. Other rocks are also 

 Arc they Carboniferous like these 



the morning before breakfast 

 the district. We go to the 

 is lovely, lihododendra in 

 all around ] oti the road side 

 crystalline rocks — trappean, 

 seen—they are sandstones, 

 traversed to the Ea«t on our 



