CH. X.] DEFORMED TROUT—TROUT IN GLOMACH. 137 
much what a slug fed on decayed vegetables might 
have been. But let the puff-balls be by-gones, 
and “revenons &@ nos moutons.’ After we had 
vacated our house, and the owner had returned 
to it, she one day asked the gardener something 
about our cuisine, upon which he answered, “Eh! 
-they eat snakes and puddock-stools; just vermin, 
Mrs 8.” 
In a small burn running into Loch Duich 
(Ross-shire) I caught with a fly (in 1857) a curiously 
deformed Trout, his lower jaw being of the usual 
length, but the upper one terminating abruptly 
close to the eyes, in the same manner as the one 
delineated by Yarrell in his book on British 
fishes, Vol. 11. p. 108, except that in this instance 
the deformity was more exaggerated. He weighed 
about a third of a pound. 
Some notion of the number of Brown Trout to 
be occasionally met with in parts of the Highlands 
may be gathered from the following incident. In 
the same part of the country, a short distance above 
the grand fall of the Glomach (a visit to which 
by the way, throwing itself, as it does, some three 
hundred and sixty feet in one unbroken leap, 
would be alone almost sufficient to repay a journey 
to Scotland), I took up a rod which happened to 
