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of burns, some of tliem of a goodly size, run into Loch Garry 

 principally from the south side. 



Between Loch Quoich and Loch Garry the river Garry is 

 somewhat canal-like, and runs sluggishly through meadows, which 

 are often inundated after heavy rains. About two miles above 

 Loch Garry the road which runs along the lochside and passes 

 Tomdown Inn, crosses the watershed between the Garry and 

 Moriston rivers on the north into Glen Clunie. The watershed 

 here is very low, almost a level, nor have the dividing hiUs 

 on the watershed, though some of them are of considerable height, 

 over 2000 feet, such a grand appearance on the east side as those 

 to the west of Tomdown Inn, being rounder and less rugged. A 

 very fine view of the greater part of Glen Quoich may be obtained 

 from the hills above Ardochy House on Loch Garry. The range of 

 hills right away up to the head of Loch Hourn and Loch Nevis are 

 visible : in the near distance can be seen shining the waters of 

 Loch Quoich, and to the south and south-west the fine range of 

 hills which bound the forest of Glen Quoich in that direction. A 

 gHmpse may be obtained, too, of the head of Glen Clunie. At 

 one's foot Hes the beautiful Loch Garry, clothed all round its 

 shores and the upper slopes with birch-trees, and on the south 

 side the still considerable remains of the old forests of natural fir, 

 beyond which rises the higher mountain range which separates 

 the properties of Invergarry and Lochiel. At the upper end of the 

 loch a pair or two of Oyster-catchers breed, and it is also frequented 

 by Goosanders and Black-throated Divers. At one time the Osprey 

 was not an uncommon visitor, but now it seems to be disappearing 

 from this its last stronghold in the north-west. At its east end 

 the loch appears to be shut in by rocks, but a rent allows the 

 river to escape over a very considerable fall, and to form the well- 

 known and celebrated angling river Garry : although quantities 

 of salmon ascend into Loch Garry, they have never been known 

 to rise to a fly there, and the upper river is only used as a spawning- 

 ground. The Garry is a rapid river, and during the whole of its 

 course flows through rocky and very stony ground until it enters 

 Loch Oich. From Loch Garry to Loch Oich the scenery on both 

 sides of the river is entirely woodland, beautiful by nature and 



