116 A VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE MORAY BASIN. 



Where the stream has a rapid fall, and runs through loose stony 

 and gravelly drift, the channel shifts with every spate, and there 

 are few pools and little food and shelter for the fish, which are 

 consequently few and small. This is the case with the water 

 of Livet above Tombae, while the Kymah, flowing over rock 

 with frequent linns and pools, holds more and better fish. The 

 Crombie, far the best trouting stream in Glenlivet, flows for the 

 greater part of its course through a cultivated cattle - raising 

 country (a boulder-clay country), with a permanent channel and 

 plenty of deep water. The Conglass occupies an intermediate 

 position between these two, and should be a better stream for 

 trout than it is ; but that it is not may perhaps be accounted for 

 by the fact that it is a great salmon spawning stream, and conse- 

 quently full of parr. 



Glenlivet. 



The scenery of Glenlivet is similar in nature to that of the 

 Cabrach of Deveron, and scarcely requires separate treatment. 

 Upper Glenlivet, or the Braes of Livet, is another of those saucer 

 or cup-like hollows and corries almost peculiar to the Cam Dis- 

 trict of Spey. Besides Mr. Hinxman's short geological sketch 

 of the Ladder Hills of Glenlivet, any one specially interested in 

 this glen can find a considerable amount of information in a 

 delightful little book. Wanderings in the Highlands of Banff and 

 Aberdeenshires, by J. G. Phillips.^ 



^ Mr. J. Gordon Phillips was secretary of the Elgin and Moray Literary and 

 Scientific Association, also Curator of the Elgin Museum after Mr. John Martin. 

 He was also on the editorial staff of the EIgm Courant, and afterwards on those of 

 the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch and Edinburgh Evening News, and at present is 

 a serial writer on the staff of the Dundee Courier. Mr. Phillips has very con- 

 siderably eni'iched the literature of his native county — Banffshire — and also that 

 of Moray or Elgin, where he has long resided. He is also author of a number of 

 papers on scientific subjects. We may mention one — ' On the Age of the Elgin 

 Sandstones,' read at British Association in Aberdeen in 1S85. 



