A PLEA FOR TOURISTS. 33 
A PLEA FOR TOURISTS. 
THE only disadvantage that we know of, following on 
the late enormous accessions to the brotherhood of 
the gentle craft, is that it is now extremely difficult 
to get a day’s salmon-fishing in any part of the 
country. Once it was truly “the poor man’s recrea- 
tion ;” but that day has gone by, and in no part of the 
kingdom is it less practicable for a stranger to get a 
day’s sport than where salmon rivers are most numer- 
ous and fish most abundant—namely, in the High- 
lands of Scotland. 
The railway runs some two hundred and fifty 
miles north of Edinburgh : before the grilse season 
is at its height, the heart of Sutherland will be, acces- 
sible by train, and in that long stretch of country the 
traveller is scarcely ever out of sight of some noble 
stream, teeming with salmon. But how few are the 
stations at which he can pause with the assurance 
that for a moderate payment, or, indeed, for any pay- 
-ment at all, he can have a day or two’s fishing with 
the chance of taking salmon or grilse. Even trout- 
fishing is not unfrequently refused, which is a mistake 
on the part of salmon-breeders, as there is no more 
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