18 Advertisemenis. 



Published Monthly, from May to Oct., over 400 pages with large Maps. Price Is. 



THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURIST'S GUSDE 



TO THE 



RIVERS, LOCHS, MOORS, AND DEER FORESTS 



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SCOTLAND, 



EDITED BY J. WATSON LTALL, 



Of " The Perthshire Constitutional." 



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From Leading Article in the " Saturday Review." 



" The editor goes on to treat of fishings, and there he is evidently most thoroughly at home. 

 We do not refer so much to his notes on the great salmon rivers, or the famous pools on the 

 Tweed and the Tay— these are as much beyond the reach of the poor as the best forest in 

 Braemar or Blair- Atholc — but to the countless lochs and streams which abound everywhere 

 in outlying districts, and which are often neglected and almost forgotten. Now, reading the 

 list of the \ arious Scotch fishing waters in this Sportman's Guide "will launch most men into 

 an entirely new world of ideas, with the prospect of constant change and never-ending 

 variety. You may pack up a rod or two, with your flies and your minnows, and a pair of 

 fishing-stockings, and start away on a fishing tour to wander where taste or fancy guides 

 you. Go where you will in the Highlands or on the Border, you can hardly go wrong. 

 Independently of the many waters which are advertised by hotel-keepers as open to their 

 visitors it is surprising to find how many more are practically free to the public. Some are 

 so remote from centres of busy life, or even from high roads or beaten paths, that it seems 

 hardly worth while warning strangers off ; others are accessible to all respectable comers 

 who choose to ask permission civilly. Tou may make fishing your object, yet combine other 

 pursuits with it. If you are an antiquary or archaeologist, or have the romance of every (rue 

 sportsman in your nature, you may shape your course for the spots that will live for ever 

 in old Scotch song and legend. Or, if you prefer to shun the tracts followed by tourists, and 

 do not object to roughing it a little, you may strike out any number of paths of your own, and 

 find your way to stream-heads and mountain -tarns where the smallness of the trout is partly 

 compensated by their rjumber, and still more bythe intoxicating buoyancy of the air and the 

 Bense of savage solitude. We recommend sportsmen at a loss to try such a trouting tour." 



" Among the other pleasant signs of the arrival or approach of summer, in due time to be 

 followed by autumn, comes the May number of Mr. Watson Lyall's Guide to the Rivers, 

 Lochs, and Moors of Scotland. For the ' ridiculously low 3 figure of one shilling may here 

 be had over 400 compact pages of the most varied and accurate information about every 

 corner of Scotlaud, and not least, about the regions most remote-— how to get there, where 

 to live, what to see, and what to do."— Scotsman. 



"The most complete compilation of its kind that could be desired for the use of the 

 thousands who annually spend their summer and autumn in different parts of Scotland. . . . 

 As complete an angler's and general guide to every spot worthy of mention in Scotland as 

 has ever been placed before the public." — The Field. 



" Certainly the most useful and comprehensive sportsmen's guide relating to the moors, 

 forests and rivers of Scotland which has yet been published " — Land and Water. 



"The best arranged book for anglers, sportsmen, and general tourists that has been 

 published for Scotland." — Edinburgh Gourant. 



" The work presents a marvellous amount of information One really wonders how 



Mr. Watson Lyall managed to pick up so many details, but he is himself a keen angler, and 

 has at his finger-ends every scrap of information connected with the subject."— Inverness 

 Courier. 



" Welcome as the swallow and the primrose is the appearance of the first number for the 

 season of Mr. Watson Lyall's Sportsman's and Tourist's Guide to Scotland— a publication which 

 may now be considered as permanent and indispensable as Bradshaw and Baedeker. The 

 slightest dip within the cream-coloured pages of Mr. Lyall's book is sufficient to stir into acti- 

 vity the most sluggish imagination. We have said so much in previous years in commendation 

 of Mr. Lyall's compendium that it is difficult to say anything now. A valuable addition to 

 the Guide this year is a specially-prepared map of Scotland for the use of tourists and sports- 

 men. It names and points out the course of every stream of any consequence in the country, 

 and distinctly marks the spots where hotel accommodation can be found It only remains 

 to advise those who have not got a copy of the Sportsman's Guide that it can be procured 

 from the booksellers and at the railway bookstalls, that the price is a shilling, and that the 

 new map referred to is alone worth more than the purchase -money." — Dundee Advertiser 

 May 6th, 1876. 



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