60 A VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE MORAY BASIN. 



Quoich, nor any place possessing quieter beauty of scenery than 

 the valley of the Ness. 



Besides the Garry, which is, at the same time, both the head 

 and principal tributary of the river !N"ess, two other rivers con- 

 tribute their drainage-waters thereto. The first of these is the 

 Moriston, at the head of which is Glen Clunie, and which drains 

 the forests of Clunie, Ceanacroc, and Glen Moriston, entering Loch 

 Ness at Invermoriston. The second and smaller runs through 

 Glen Urquhart, and is formed by the two streams, the Coiltie and 

 the Enrick. The former of these rises in the Balmacaan forest ; 

 the latter runs through the properties of Corriemony and Lakefield. 

 Both these join at a point below Drumnadrochit, forming a marsh 

 between their junction and the loch. After Glen Urquhart is 

 passed, only a few insignificant burns enter the loch between there 

 and the sea, the watershed between it and the Beauly in the 

 north being very narrow, and the burns flowing either directly 

 into the Beauly or into the firth between Beauly and Inverness. 



Having thus given a rough outline of the principal tributaries 

 of the Ness, we will now proceed to examine these more in 

 detail. 



The upper part of Glen Quoich is wild in the extreme, many of 

 the hills rising to over 3000 feet, and these are ramified by 

 numerous corries, the lower parts of which are in many places 

 clothed with birch. Amongst these giants may be mentioned — 

 Creag nan Damh (3012 feet), Sgurr an Lochain (3282 feet), 

 Aonach air Chrith (3342 feet), on the north side of the glen, 

 and Sgurr a Mhoraire (3365 feet) on the south, besides others. 

 Loch Quoich, eight miles long, lies in this grand amphitheatre of 

 hills, and on its shores is Lord Burton's shooting-lodge on the 

 Invergarry estate. All this fine wild country is under deer, and 

 some of the finest heads in Scotland came from this and other 

 forests in the immediate neighbourhood. It was from this forest, 

 though on that part of it belonging to Lochiel, that Lord 

 Burton's twenty-pointer was shot in 1893. Between Loch 

 Quoich and Loch Garry the river Kingie joins the Garry from 

 Glen Kingie, also on Lochiel's property. This is the largest 

 affluent during the whole course of the Garry, though a number 



