THE ADD, ARAY, DOUGLAS, FYNE, ETC. 239 



" Greater loyalty to his chief could not have been more clearly 

 shown by the most devoted Highlander. 



" David also saved Mrs. Wilham Russell, a daughter of Lady 

 Charlotte Bury, from being drowned in the Miller's Lynn. He was 

 attending her when she was casting from a plank placed between 

 two rocks ; something went wrong, and in a second the lady was 

 in the torrent. David could not swim, and it was only after re- 

 peated and desperate efforts that he managed to lay hold of her 

 dress just as hope was almost gone." 



The Aray and the Douglas can be fished by visitors at the 

 Argyll Arms Hotel at Inveraray. 



The Shira has its course through a beautifully wooded glen, 

 and falls into Loch Fyne, two miles to the north of the Aray, while 

 a short distance from the sea it expends into the Dubh Loch, a 

 pretty sheet of water, which also can be fished from the hotel, but 

 the river itself the Duke keeps in his own hands. The Douglas 

 falls into Loch Fyne, four miles to the south of Inveraray, the salmon 

 angling being limited to a mile, to where the bridge crosses, by some 

 nearly impassable falls. 



The Fyne and the Kinglas belong to Mr. Callender of Ard- 

 kinglas, the former running into the head of the loch not far from 

 Cairndow Inn. It is a larger and better river than either of the 

 others, and holds many pretty streams and small pools in the last 

 six miles of its course ; its chief tributary is the Red Burn, about 

 half as large as the main stream. Up till about 1890 the Fyne used 

 to yield to the sportsmen who rented it with the shootings an 

 average bag each season of from fifty to one hundred salmon and 

 grilse besides sea trout, which has been reduced somewhat through 

 the incessant poaching by splash nets in Loch Fyne, helped by a bag- 

 net placed quite close to the mouth. The Kinglas has a run of 

 about five miles, and can be fished by those staying at the Cairndow 

 Inn, but sport is only to be had when it is just right. 



These five Loch Fyne streams are all late ones, and though 

 they open on the i6th of February, July, August, and September 

 are the best months. A one-handed rod will cover them all, and 

 small standard flies, such as Jock Scot, etc., are used. 



